Ciera Jaspan

Ciera Jaspan

Ciera is the tech lead manager of the Engineering Productivity Research within Developer Infrastructure. The Engineering Productivity Research team brings a data-driven approach to business decisions around engineering productivity. They use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to triangulate on measuring productivity. Ciera previously worked on Tricorder, Google's static analysis platform. She received her B.S. in Software Engineering from Cal Poly and her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon, where she worked with Jonathan Aldrich on cost-effective static analysis and software framework design.

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    Understanding Architectural Complexity, Maintenance Burden, and Developer Sentiment -- A Large-Scale Study
    Yuanfang Cai
    Lanting He
    Jun Qian
    Yony Kochinski
    Nan Zhang
    Ciera Jaspan
    Antonio Bianco
    2025
    Measuring Productivity: All Models are Wrong But Some are Useful
    Ciera Jaspan
    Collin Green
    IEEE Software, 42 (2025), pp. 13-17
    Measuring Developer Experience with a Longitudinal Survey
    Sarah D'Angelo
    Jessica Lin
    Jill Dicker
    Maggie Hodges
    Carolyn Egelman
    Collin Green
    Ciera Jaspan
    IEEE Software (2024)
    Identifying the Factors that Influence Trust in AI Code Completion
    Adam Brown
    Sarah D'Angelo
    Ambar Murillo
    Ciera Jaspan
    Collin Green
    AIware (2024)
    Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 7: Software Quality
    Ciera Jaspan
    Collin Green
    Jessica Lin
    Maggie Hodges
    IEEE Software (2024)
    Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt
    Ciera Jaspan
    Collin Green
    IEEE Software, 40 (2023), pp. 15-19
    Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 5: Onboarding and Ramp-Up
    Collin Green
    Ciera Jaspan
    Maggie Hodges
    Lanting He
    Demei Shen
    Nan Zhang
    IEEE Software, 40 (2023), pp. 13-19
    Using Logs Data to Identify When Software Engineers Experience Flow or Focused Work
    Adam Brown
    Sarah D'Angelo
    Ben Holtz
    Ciera Jaspan
    Collin Green
    ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2023) (to appear)
    Developer Productivity for Humans: A Human-Centered Approach to Developer Productivity
    Ciera Nicole Christopher Jaspan
    Collin Green
    IEEE Software (2023)
    Systemic Gender Inequities in Who Reviews Code
    Emerson Murphy-Hill
    Jill Dicker
    Amber Horvath
    Maggie Hodges
    Carolyn D. Egelman
    Laurie R. Weingart
    Ciera Jaspan
    Collin Green
    Nina Chen
    Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2023) (to appear)
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