  Effects of personality profiles and human factors in software engineering
(SE) have been studied from different perspectives, such as: software life
cycle, team performance, software quality attributes, and so on. This study
intends to compare personality profiles of software engineers in academia and
industry. In this survey we have collected personality profiles of software
engineers from academia and the local industry in Pakistan. According to the
Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument, the most prominent personality
type among Pakistani academicians is a combination of Introversion, Sensing,
Thinking, and Judging (ISTJ). However the most dominant personality type among
software engineers in the Pakistani software industry is a combination of
Extroversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging (ESTJ). The results of study
establish that software engineers working in industry are mostly Extroverts as
compared to those in academia who tend to be Introverts. The dimensions:
Sensing, Thinking, and Judging (STJ), however, remain common in the dominant
personality types of software engineers, both in Pakistani software industry
and academia.
