Identifying individual process patterns by means of non-invasive measurements: preliminary results

So far there have been limited attempts to model the individual development patterns, however, non invasive measurements techniques, by providing a very detailed view of how people operate, open the door to completely new opportunities for understanding the behavior of developers. This study reports about the analysis of the development process patterns of a limited set of programmers across a few months of activity by using the time structure of the events produced within the programmers' developing environments. Preliminary findings hint for an event production dynamics characterized by long range correlations.