Published May 25, 2021 | Version v1
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How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub

  • 1. RWTH Aachen University
  • 2. RWTH Aachen University & GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
  • 3. Vienna University of Economics and Business & Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Description

Data set for the ICSE 2021 paper "How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub". Code is available on GitHub (link).

Please note that the file "commits_reduced.json" is not part of this data set due to its large size and Zenodo's file size limit of 50GB. You can compute the file using this script (link) and GHTorrent's latest data set (link).

L. Moldon, M. Strohmaier and J. Wachs,  "How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub," in 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Madrid, ES, 2021 pp. 549-561.
doi: 10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00058
keywords: {gamification, behavior, software engineering, natural experiment, github}
url: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00058

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