The Software Diversity Card: A Framework for Reporting Diversity in Software Projects

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05470v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:43:06 GMT
• Title: The Software Diversity Card: A Framework for Reporting Diversity in Software Projects
• Authors: Joan Giner-Miguelez, Sergio Morales, Sergio Cobos, Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, Robert Clariso, Jordi Cabot,
• Abstract summary: Reporting diversity-related aspects of software projects can increase user trust and help regulators evaluate potential adoption.<n>Recent directives around AI are beginning to require diversity information in the development of AI products, indicating the growing interest of public regulators in it.<n>This work introduces the Software Diversity Card, a comprehensive framework for reporting diversity-related aspects of software projects.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The interest and concerns about diversity in software development have soared in recent years. Reporting diversity-related aspects of software projects can increase user trust and help regulators evaluate potential adoption. Furthermore, recent directives around AI are beginning to require diversity information in the development of AI products, indicating the growing interest of public regulators in it. Despite this importance, current documentation assets in software development processes frequently overlook diversity in favor of technical features, partly due to a lack of tools for describing and annotating diversity. This work introduces the Software Diversity Card, a comprehensive framework for reporting diversity-related aspects of software projects. The card is designed to profile the different types of teams involved in developing and governing software projects (including the final user groups involved in testing), and the software adaptations for specific social groups. To encourage its adoption, we provide a diversity modeling language, a toolkit for generating the cards using such language, and a collection of real-world examples from active software projects. Our proposal can enhance diversity practices in software development e.g., through open-source projects like the CONTRIBUTING.md file), support public administrations in software assessment, and help businesses promote diversity as a key asset.

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