Community smells in software teams: a systematic literature mapping.

Abstract

Community smells are symptoms of organizational and social problems in software teams that often increase project costs and affect software quality. Recent research has identified several community smells and defined them as suboptimal patterns related to organizational social structure in software development teams, such as lack of communication, coordination, and collaboration. For this reason, this study aims to conduct a systematic mapping from scientific articles in order to understand how the topic is being treated. In view of this, 24 articles were selected that address the subject in several existing databases and classification criteria were elaborated with the objective of answering the questions made and evaluating the results, this article concluded that studying community smells at the structural and organizational level can be vital to freeing up software teams to avoid critical organizational failures that may in the future entail considerable additional costs.