Use of personality tests in empirical software engineering studies: A review of ethical issues
2019 (English)In: PROCEEDINGS OF EASE 2019 - EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, Association for Computing Machinery , 2019, p. 237-242Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
There has been a lot of research on personality and its impact on software engineering practice. These studies use different psychological tests to identify personality types of software practitioners. The administration of these tests requires expertise. As the humans are involved, other ethical issues, such as consent, also become important. In this study, we evaluated a small sample of 15 studies that used a psychological test Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in a software engineering context with respect to different ethical issues related to informed consent, qualification of the test administrators and the use of appropriate tests. The results show that most of the studies in our sample seriously lack with respect to various ethical issues. © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery , 2019. p. 237-242
Keywords [en]
Empirical software engineering, Ethical issues, Personality tests, Philosophical aspects, Testing, Myers-Briggs Type Indicators, Personality types, Psychological tests, Software engineering practices, Software practitioners, Software testing
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-17894DOI: 10.1145/3319008.3319032ISI: 000493383400023Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85064733070ISBN: 9781450371452 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-17894DiVA, id: diva2:1316775
Conference
23rd Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Conference, EASE; Copenhagen, 14 April 2019 through 17 April 2019
2019-05-212019-05-212019-11-14Bibliographically approved