The Work of Software Development as an Assemblage of Computational Practice

Susan Sim; Marisa Cohn; Kavita Philip

doi:10.1109/CHASE.2009.5071419

The Work of Software Development as an Assemblage of Computational Practice

Susan Sim, Marisa Cohn, Kavita Philip

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Abstract

Science and technology studies (STS) is a discipline concerned with examining how social and technological worlds shape each other. In this paper, we argue that STS can be used to study the work of software development as a complex, interacting system of people, organizations, culture, practices, and technology, or in STS terms, an assemblage. We illustrate the application of these ideas to the work of software development, where STS theory directs us towards examining at human-human relations, human-machine relations, and machine-machine relations. We conclude by discussing some of the challenges of applying STS in empirical software engineering.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering : CHASE
Place of Publication	Vancouver, BC
Publication date	2009
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-3712-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CHASE.2009.5071419
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

programming
sociotechnical systems
software engineering
sociology
interactive systems
STS
Software development
computational practice

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