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How Software Practitioners Perceive Work-Related Barriers and Benefits Based on their Educational Background: Insights from a Survey Study
Date
2023-01-01
Author
Unlu, Huseyin
Yürüm, Ozan Raşit
Özcan Top, Özden
Demirors, Onur
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The demand for software practitioners has increased substantially over the last three decades. As the supply trend has not been able to catch these high demand levels, recruiters have been employing people without traditional software engineering backgrounds. Individuals interested in changing careers, attend courses, take certificates, or involve in graduate programs in software engineering-related programs to acquire necessary skills. These practitioners may have different benefits and may face more challenges compared to their colleagues with traditional software engineering background. Here, we present the results of a survey study performed with 132 software practitioners from 11 countries to explore work-related challenges and the opportunities that participants experience. The result shows that software practitioners from non-software-related backgrounds face more barriers, fewer benefits, and feel less satisfied. However, data shows that these differences reduce with over ten years of experience, involvement in software-related graduate programs, taking software certificates, and mentorship from experienced practitioners.
Subject Keywords
Engineering profession
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Faces
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Industries
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Knowledge engineering
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Software
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Software engineering
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Surveys
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105698
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IEEE Software
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2023.3270959
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H. Unlu, O. R. Yürüm, Ö. Özcan Top, and O. Demirors, “How Software Practitioners Perceive Work-Related Barriers and Benefits Based on their Educational Background: Insights from a Survey Study,”
IEEE Software
, pp. 0–0, 2023, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85173077238&origin=inward.