With the increasing concerns over privacy in software systems, there is a growing enthusiasm to develop methods to support the development of privacy aware software systems. Inadequate privacy in software system designs could result in users losing their sensitive data, such as health information and financial information, which may cause financial and reputation loss. Privacy Engineering Methodologies (PEMs) are introduced into the software development processes with the goal of guiding software developers to embed privacy into the systems they design. However, for PEMs to be successful it is imperative that software developers have a positive intention to use PEMs. Otherwise, developers may attempt to bypass the privacy methodologies or use them partially and hence develop software systems that may not protect user privacy appropriately. To investigate the factors that affect software developers’ behavioural intention to follow PEMs, in this article, we conducted a study with 149 software developers. Findings of the study show that the usefulness of the PEM to the developers’ existing work to be the strongest determinant that affects software developers’ intention to follow PEMs. Moreover, the compatibility of the PEM with their way of work and how the PEM demonstrates its results when used were also found to be significant. These findings provide important insights in understanding the behaviour of software developers and how they perceive PEMs. The findings could be used to assist organisations and researchers to deploy PEMs and design PEMs that are positively accepted by software developers.

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他们会使用它还是不使用它？调查软件开发人员遵循隐私工程方法的意图

随着对软件系统中隐私的日益关注，人们越来越热衷于开发支持隐私感知软件系统开发的方法。软件系统设计中的隐私不足可能会导致用户丢失其敏感数据，例如健康信息和财务信息，这可能会导致财务和声誉损失。隐私工程方法 (PEM) 被引入到软件开发过程中，目的是引导软件开发人员将隐私嵌入到他们设计的系统中。但是，要使 PEM 成功，软件开发人员必须有使用 PEM 的积极意图。否则，开发人员可能会尝试绕过隐私方法或部分使用它们，从而开发可能无法适当保护用户隐私的软件系统。为了调查影响软件开发人员遵循 PEM 的行为意向的因素，在本文中，我们对 149 位软件开发人员进行了研究。研究结果表明，PEM 对开发人员现有工作的有用性是影响软件开发人员遵循 PEM 意图的最强决定因素。此外，还发现 PEM 与其工作方式的兼容性以及 PEM 在使用时如何展示其结果也很重要。这些发现为了解软件开发人员的行为以及他们如何看待 PEM 提供了重要的见解。这些发现可用于帮助组织和研究人员部署 PEM 并设计软件开发人员积极接受的 PEM。