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Reports that communication and behavioral issues contribute to inadequately performing software teams have fuelled a wealth of research aimed at understanding the human processes employed during software development. The increasing level of…

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Software development is a dynamic activity that requires engineers to work effectively with tools, processes, and collaborative teams. As a result, the presence of friction can significantly hinder productivity, increase frustration, and…

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Background: Collaboration among software engineers through face-to-face discussions in teams has been promoted since the adoption of agile methods. However, these discussions might demote the contribution of software engineers who are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Ingrid Nunes , Christoph Treude , Fabio Calefato

Software development relies heavily on text-based communication, making sentiment analysis a valuable tool for understanding team dynamics and supporting trustworthy AI-driven analytics in requirements engineering. However, existing…

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Software repositories provide a detailed record of software evolution by capturing developer interactions through code-related activities such as pull requests and modifications. To better understand the underlying dynamics of codebase…

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Context: In seeking to better understand the impact of various human factors in software development, and how teams' attitudes relate to their performance, increasing attention is being given to the study of team-related artefacts. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Sherlock A. Licorish , Stephen G. MacDonell

Social aspects of software projects become increasingly important for research and practice. Different approaches analyze the sentiment of a development team, ranging from simply asking the team to so-called sentiment analysis on text-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Marc Herrmann , Martin Obaidi , Larissa Chazette , Jil Klünder

Unit testing is an essential component of the software development life-cycle. A developer could easily and quickly catch and fix software faults introduced in the source code by creating and running unit tests. Despite their importance,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Denivan Campos , Larissa Rocha , Ivan Machado

Emotions at work have long been identified as critical signals of work motivations, status, and attitudes, and as predictors of various work-related outcomes. When more and more employees work remotely, these emotional signals of workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Xuan Lu , Wei Ai , Zhenpeng Chen , Yanbin Cao , Qiaozhu Mei

The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding the positive side of happiness -- positive emotions and moods -- is an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Daniel Graziotin , Fabian Fagerholm , Xiaofeng Wang , Pekka Abrahamsson

A positive working climate is essential in modern software development. It enhances productivity since a satisfied developer tends to deliver better results. Sentiment analysis tools are a means to analyze and classify textual communication…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Martin Obaidi , Henrik Holm , Kurt Schneider , Jil Klünder

The study of affects (i.e., emotions, moods) in the workplace has received a lot of attention in the last 15 years. Despite the fact that software development has been shown to be intellectual, creative, and driven by cognitive activities,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Daniel Graziotin , Xiaofeng Wang , Pekka Abrahamsson

Developers experience a wide range of emotions during programming tasks, which may have an impact on job performance. In this paper, we present an empirical study aimed at (i) investigating the link between emotion and progress, (ii)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Daniela Girardi , Nicole Novielli , Davide Fucci , Filippo Lanubile

From science to industry, teamwork plays a crucial role in knowledge production and innovation. Most studies consider teams as static groups of individuals, thereby failing to capture how the micro-dynamics of collaborative processes and…

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Software development is a collaborative process that involves various interactions among individuals and teams. TODO comments in source code play a critical role in managing and coordinating diverse tasks during this process. However, this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Haoye Wang , Zhipeng Gao , Tingting Bi , John Grundy , Xinyu Wang , Minghui Wu , Xiaohu Yang

Background: Despite a growing body of literature on the impact of software bots on open source software development teams, their effects on team communication, coordination, and collaboration practices are not well understood. Bots can have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Leonore Röseler , Ingo Scholtes , Christoph Gote

The analysis of sentimental posts about software testing on Stack Overflow reveals that motivation and commitment of developers to use software testing methods is not only influenced by tools and technology. Rather, attitudes are also…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Mark Swillus , Andy Zaidman

Context: Large-scale distributed projects are typically the results of collective efforts performed by multiple developers with heterogeneous personalities. Objective: We aim to find evidence that personalities can explain developers'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile , Bogdan Vasilescu