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Software development, often perceived as a technical endeavor, is fundamentally a social activity requiring collaboration among team members. Acknowledging this, the software development community has devised strategies to address possible…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mikhail Evtikhiev , Ekaterina Koshchenko , Vladimir Kovalenko

Emotional coordination is a core property of human interaction that shapes how relational meaning is constructed in real time. While text-based affect inference has become increasingly feasible, prior approaches often treat sentiment as a…

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

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Martin Obaidi , Marc Herrmann , Jil Klünder , Kurt Schneider

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Ike Obi , Jenna Butler , Sankeerti Haniyur , Brian Hassan , Margaret-Anne Storey , Brendan Murphy

There is a growing belief that understanding and addressing the human processes employed during software development is likely to provide substantially more value to industry than yet more recommendations for the implementation of various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sherlock A. Licorish , Stephen G. MacDonell

Recent studies show that gender diversity in IT teams has a positive impact on the software development process. However, there is still a great gender inequality. The aim of our study was to examine how the working atmosphere depends on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Kelly Blincoe , Olga Springer , Michal R. Wrobel

The perceptions and attitudes of developers impact how software projects are run and which development practices are employed in development teams. Recent agile methodologies have taken this into account, focusing on collaboration and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Christoph Matthies , Johannes Huegle , Tobias Dürschmid , Ralf Teusner

Improving the effectiveness of problem solving in teams is an important research topic due to the complexity and cross-disciplinary nature of modern problems. It is unlikely that an individual can successfully tackle alone such problems.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Alex Doboli , Ryan Duke

Effective software development relies on managing both collaboration and technology, but sociotechnical challenges can harm team dynamics and increase technical debt. Although teams working on ML enabled systems are interdisciplinary,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Giusy Annunziata , Stefano Lambiase , Fabio Palomba , Gemma Catolino , Filomena Ferrucci

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sherlock A. Licorish , Stephen G. MacDonell

Recent works have proposed that software developers' positive emotion has a positive impact on software developers' productivity. In this paper we investigate two data sources: developers chat messages (from Slack and Hipchat) and source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Miikka Kuutila , Mika Mäntylä , Maëlick Claes

Affects---emotions and moods---have an impact on cognitive activities and the working performance of individuals. Development tasks are undertaken through cognitive processes, yet software engineering research lacks theory on affects and…

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

A recent research trend has emerged to identify developers' emotions, by applying sentiment analysis to the content of communication traces left in collaborative development environments. Trying to overcome the limitations posed by using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Nicole Novielli , Daniela Girardi , Filippo Lanubile

Evaluating developer satisfaction with conversational AI assistants at scale is critical but challenging. User studies provide rich insights, but are unscalable, while large-scale quantitative signals from logs or in-product ratings are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Daye Nam , Malgorzata Salawa , Satish Chandra

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

Context: Most software companies strive to have high-performing teams and mitigate withdrawal behaviors like being present but unproductive. In this context, psychological safety and developers perceived impact are suggested as potential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mary Sánchez-Gordón , Ricardo Colomo-Palacios , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Monica Kristiansen Holone

With the goal of facilitating team collaboration, we propose a new approach to building vector representations of individual developers by capturing their individual contribution style, or coding style. Such representations can find use in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Vladimir Kovalenko , Egor Bogomolov , Timofey Bryksin , Alberto Bacchelli

In software development teams, developer turnover is among the primary reasons for project failures as it leads to a great void of knowledge and strain for the newcomers. Unfortunately, no established methods exist to measure how knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Saad Shafiq , Christoph Mayr-Dorn , Atif Mashkoor , Alexander Egyed

Community smells are negative patterns in software development teams' interactions that impede their ability to successfully create software. Examples are team members working in isolation, lack of communication and collaboration across…