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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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Changes are inherent in software development, often increasing developers' perception of instability. Understanding the relationship between human factors and Software Engineering processes is crucial to mitigating and preventing issues.…

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Software development teams have to face stress caused by deadlines, staff turnover, or individual differences in commitment, expertise, and time zones. While students are typically taught the theory of software project management, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Isabella Graßl , Gordon Fraser , Stefan Trieflinger , Marco Kuhrmann

Sentiment analysis is an essential technique for investigating the emotional climate within developer teams, contributing to both team productivity and project success. Existing sentiment analysis tools in software engineering primarily…

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

Previous research has studied the impact of developer personality in different software engineering scenarios, such as team dynamics and programming education. However, little is known about how user personality affect software engineering,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Volodymyr Biryuk , Walid Maalej

Women have been shown to be effective leaders in many team-based situations. However, it is also well-recognized that women are underrepresented in engineering and technology areas, which leads to wasted efforts and a lack of diversity in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Anh Nguyen-Duc , Soudabeh Khodambashi , Jon Atle Gulla , John Krogstie , Pekka Abrahamsson

Software development involves collaborative interactions where stakeholders express opinions across various platforms. Recognizing the sentiments conveyed in these interactions is crucial for the effective development and ongoing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ferdian Thung , David Lo

[Background] Emotional Intelligence (EI) can impact Software Engineering (SE) outcomes through improved team communication, conflict resolution, and stress management. SE workers face increasing pressure to develop both technical and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Allysson Allex Araújo , Marcos Kalinowski , Matheus Paixao , Daniel Graziotin

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…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-29 Lorenzo Betti , Luca Gallo , Johannes Wachs , Federico Battiston

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

A key issue in collaborative software development is communication among developers. One modality of communication is a commit message, in which developers describe the changes they make in a repository. As such, commit messages serve as an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yingchen Tian , Yuxia Zhang , Klaas-Jan Stol , Lin Jiang , Hui Liu

Large-scale distributed projects are typically the results of collective efforts performed by multiple developers, each one having a different personality. The study of developers' personalities has the potential of explaining their'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Fabio Calefato , Giuseppe Iaffaldano , Filippo Lanubile , Bogdan Vasilescu

Sentiment analysis on software engineering (SE) texts has been widely used in the SE research, such as evaluating app reviews or analyzing developers sentiments in commit messages. To better support the use of automated sentiment analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Kexin Sun , Hui Gao , Hongyu Kuang , Xiaoxing Ma , Guoping Rong , Dong Shao , He Zhang

AI code generation tools have expanded software creation beyond professional developers, giving rise to vibe coding, a practice in which users generate software via natural-language prompts, evaluate outputs primarily by execution. Prior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ahmed Fawzy , Amjed Tahir , Kelly Blincoe

Background: The experience sampling method studies everyday experiences of humans in natural environments. In psychology it has been used to study the relationships between work well-being and productivity. To our best knowledge, daily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Miikka Kuutila , Mika Mäntylä , Maëlick Claes , Marko Elovainio , Bram Adams

Sentiment analysis has various application scenarios in software engineering (SE), such as detecting developers' emotions in commit messages and identifying their opinions on Q&A forums. However, commonly used out-of-the-box sentiment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Zhenpeng Chen , Yanbin Cao , Xuan Lu , Qiaozhu Mei , Xuanzhe Liu

Sentiment analysis methods have become popular for investigating human communication, including discussions related to software projects. Since general-purpose sentiment analysis tools do not fit well with the information exchanged by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Nicole Novielli , Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile , Alexander Serebrenik

Software testing is an integral part of modern software engineering practice. Past research has not only underlined its significance, but also revealed its multi-faceted nature. The practice of software testing and its adoption is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Mark Swillus , Andy Zaidman

Sentiment analysis in low-resource, culturally nuanced contexts challenges conventional NLP approaches that assume fixed labels and universal affective expressions. We present a diagnostic framework that treats sentiment as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Millicent Ochieng , Anja Thieme , Ignatius Ezeani , Risa Ueno , Samuel Maina , Keshet Ronen , Javier Gonzalez , Jacki O'Neill

Background: Using sentiment analysis to study software developers' behavior comes with challenges such as the presence of a large amount of technical discussion unlikely to express any positive or negative sentiment. However, emoticons…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Maëlick Claes , Mika Mäntylä , Umar Farooq