The Risk-Taking Software Engineer: A Framed Portrait
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Graf-Vlachy, Lorenz
- Source
- 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER) ICSE-NIER Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER), 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on. :25-30 May, 2023
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Surveys
Reliability engineering
Software
Software reliability
Testing
Software engineering
Risk-taking
framing
personality
five-factor model
Big Five
- Language
- ISSN
- 2832-7632
Background: Risk-taking is prevalent in a host of activities performed by software engineers on a daily basis, yet there is scant research on it. Aims and Method: We study if software engineers’ risk-taking is affected by framing effects and by software engineers’ personality. To this end, we perform a survey experiment with 124 software engineers. Results: We find that framing substantially affects their risk-taking. None of the "Big Five" personality traits are related to risk-taking in software engineers after correcting for multiple testing. Conclusions: Software engineers and their managers must be aware of framing effects and account for them properly.