A Survey on the Adoption of Patterns for Engineering Software for the Cloud - Response Dataset

This work takes as a starting point a collection of patterns for engineering software for the cloud and tries to find how they are regarded and adopted by professionals. We investigate (1) their relevance for professional software developers, (2) the extent to which product and company characteristics influence their adoption, and (3) how adopting some patterns might correlate with the likelihood of adopting others. For this purpose, we surveyed 102 practitioners using an online questionnaire. Amongst other findings, we conclude that most companies are using these patterns, with the overwhelming majority (97%) using at least one. We observe that the mean pattern adoption tends to increase as companies mature, namely when varying the product operation complexity, active monthly users, and company size. Finally, we establish clear correlations in the adoption of specific pairs of patterns, with conditional probabilities as high as 94%, which hints on how some practices are dependent or influence the adoption of others.