Jamie, > I may have misspoken. I was not asking a general question >about how willing software developers were as a whole to adopt >new technologies. Rather I was looking for a questionnaire, >i.e. to give to experimental subjects, assessing how willing >those individuals are to adopt new technologies. This would >help us in blocking in an experimental design and would allow >us to see whether their willingness to adopt new technologies >is correlated with some other measures. Sorry for the >confusion.
I can see willingness to adopt new technology being correlated with all sorts of things: importance of project (don't want to risk anything new on an important project unless I really have to), past experience (less effort doing it the way it has always been done), youthfulness (young people are generally game for something new), etc. Of course at the end of the day it is a cost/benefit + risk analysis problem Not that software developers ever get involved with carrying out such activities :-( This is a tough problem. Good luck with it. derek -- Derek M Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
