Paper Info
Title
A Deep Dive into the Impact of COVID-19 on Software Development
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the century. It has impacted different business sectors around the world and software development is not an exception. This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on software projects and software development professionals. We conducted a mining software repository study based on 100 GitHub projects developed in Java using ten different metrics. Next, we surveyed 279 software development professionals for better understanding the impact of COVID-19 on daily activities and wellbeing. We identified 12 observations related to productivity, code quality, and wellbeing. Our findings highlight that the impact of COVID-19 is not binary (reduce productivity versus increase productivity) but rather a spectrum. For many of our observations, substantial proportions of respondents have differing opinions from each other. We believe that more research is needed to uncover specific conditions that cause certain outcomes to be more prevalent.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TSE.2021.3088759
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
COVID-19, Software, Pandemics, Productivity, Data mining, Software development management, Computer bugs, COVID-19, empirical study, survey and mining software repository (MSR)
Journal
48
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0098-5589
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto110.36
Umme Ayda Mannan2233.51
Eduardo Santana de Almeida388680.46
Nachiappan Nagappan44602190.30
David Lo55346259.67
Pavneet Singh Kochhar620.71
Cuiyun Gao75010.05
Iftekhar Ahmed83510.48