Papers by Ana Vasconcelos
Coesão em Equipes de Engenharia de Software: Um Mapeamento Sistemático, 2012
Background: Research results on teamwork show cohesion as an important
antecedent of effectivene... more Background: Research results on teamwork show cohesion as an important
antecedent of effectiveness. Cohesive teams have been associated with a greater
number of high-quality solutions to complex problems and better results in terms of
technical quality, cost and performance in general . However, cohesion is a complex
and multifaceted construct that has received different treatment in relation to its
theoretical conceptualization and operationalization, making the comparison and
integration of search results difficult. This is also the context in research on the
cohesion of software teams, where there is, so far, no study with the objective of
grouping and analyzing the research results in the area.
Objective: This study aims to catalog, analyze and synthesize empirical studies on
cohesion in software teams. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how the
concept has been defined and also the theoretical basis for these definitions,
operationalizations used and the cohesion effects observed in the performance of
software teams.
Method: We used the literature systematic review methods and procedures to
search and select scientific published papers and to extract and synthesize data from
selected works.Thus, we aimed to produce a comprehensive, systematic and
auditable mapping of the research on cohesion in software engineering.
Results: In this study, we analyzed 4346 papers and selected 31, published between
1992 and 2010, for data extraction and analysis. The results indicate inconsistency in
the cohesion conceptualization, besides the differences in the theories used in this
conceptualization and divergence in the cohesion operationalization in empirical
research. The main cohesion effects observed in software teams are related to
performance, knowledge transference, success, experience, interpersonal
relationships and the code/software quality.
Conclusions: The number of publications that study the cohesion construct has
grown in the last decade, however the number of studies that focus on team
cohesion is still relatively low. Thus, it is important to perform more studies focused
on team cohesion in software engineering, as well as replications of existing studies.
It is worth noting the importance of using qualitative methods besides data
triangulation, since they are the most suitable ones for studying this kind of construct,
where the focus is on team dynamics.
Keywords: Team Cohesion, Systematic Mapping, Software Engineering.
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Papers by Ana Vasconcelos
antecedent of effectiveness. Cohesive teams have been associated with a greater
number of high-quality solutions to complex problems and better results in terms of
technical quality, cost and performance in general . However, cohesion is a complex
and multifaceted construct that has received different treatment in relation to its
theoretical conceptualization and operationalization, making the comparison and
integration of search results difficult. This is also the context in research on the
cohesion of software teams, where there is, so far, no study with the objective of
grouping and analyzing the research results in the area.
Objective: This study aims to catalog, analyze and synthesize empirical studies on
cohesion in software teams. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how the
concept has been defined and also the theoretical basis for these definitions,
operationalizations used and the cohesion effects observed in the performance of
software teams.
Method: We used the literature systematic review methods and procedures to
search and select scientific published papers and to extract and synthesize data from
selected works.Thus, we aimed to produce a comprehensive, systematic and
auditable mapping of the research on cohesion in software engineering.
Results: In this study, we analyzed 4346 papers and selected 31, published between
1992 and 2010, for data extraction and analysis. The results indicate inconsistency in
the cohesion conceptualization, besides the differences in the theories used in this
conceptualization and divergence in the cohesion operationalization in empirical
research. The main cohesion effects observed in software teams are related to
performance, knowledge transference, success, experience, interpersonal
relationships and the code/software quality.
Conclusions: The number of publications that study the cohesion construct has
grown in the last decade, however the number of studies that focus on team
cohesion is still relatively low. Thus, it is important to perform more studies focused
on team cohesion in software engineering, as well as replications of existing studies.
It is worth noting the importance of using qualitative methods besides data
triangulation, since they are the most suitable ones for studying this kind of construct,
where the focus is on team dynamics.
Keywords: Team Cohesion, Systematic Mapping, Software Engineering.
antecedent of effectiveness. Cohesive teams have been associated with a greater
number of high-quality solutions to complex problems and better results in terms of
technical quality, cost and performance in general . However, cohesion is a complex
and multifaceted construct that has received different treatment in relation to its
theoretical conceptualization and operationalization, making the comparison and
integration of search results difficult. This is also the context in research on the
cohesion of software teams, where there is, so far, no study with the objective of
grouping and analyzing the research results in the area.
Objective: This study aims to catalog, analyze and synthesize empirical studies on
cohesion in software teams. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how the
concept has been defined and also the theoretical basis for these definitions,
operationalizations used and the cohesion effects observed in the performance of
software teams.
Method: We used the literature systematic review methods and procedures to
search and select scientific published papers and to extract and synthesize data from
selected works.Thus, we aimed to produce a comprehensive, systematic and
auditable mapping of the research on cohesion in software engineering.
Results: In this study, we analyzed 4346 papers and selected 31, published between
1992 and 2010, for data extraction and analysis. The results indicate inconsistency in
the cohesion conceptualization, besides the differences in the theories used in this
conceptualization and divergence in the cohesion operationalization in empirical
research. The main cohesion effects observed in software teams are related to
performance, knowledge transference, success, experience, interpersonal
relationships and the code/software quality.
Conclusions: The number of publications that study the cohesion construct has
grown in the last decade, however the number of studies that focus on team
cohesion is still relatively low. Thus, it is important to perform more studies focused
on team cohesion in software engineering, as well as replications of existing studies.
It is worth noting the importance of using qualitative methods besides data
triangulation, since they are the most suitable ones for studying this kind of construct,
where the focus is on team dynamics.
Keywords: Team Cohesion, Systematic Mapping, Software Engineering.