A Preliminary Analysis on the Effects of Propensity to Trust in Distributed Software Development
Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile, Nicole Novielli

TL;DR
This study investigates how individual differences in trust disposition influence collaboration success in distributed software projects, focusing on the likelihood of pull requests being successfully merged.
Contribution
It introduces a quantitative analysis of the impact of the propensity to trust on distributed team collaboration success, a previously overlooked factor.
Findings
Higher propensity to trust correlates with increased merge success rates.
Personality traits influence collaboration outcomes in distributed development.
Trust disposition affects team dynamics and project success.
Abstract
Establishing trust between developers working at distant sites facilitates team collaboration in distributed software development. While previous research has focused on how to build and spread trust in absence of direct, face-to-face communication, it has overlooked the effects of the propensity to trust, i.e., the trait of personality representing the individual disposition to perceive the others as trustworthy. In this study, we present a preliminary, quantitative analysis on how the propensity to trust affects the success of collaborations in a distributed project, where the success is represented by pull requests whose code changes and contributions are successfully merged into the project's repository.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
