What happens when software developers are (un)happy

•Consequences of happiness and unhappiness among software developers detailed.•More positive consequences of happiness are experienced related to the self.•More negative consequences of unhappiness are experienced for external factors.•Results based on qualitative analysis of more than 300 developer...

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Vydáno v:The Journal of systems and software Ročník 140; s. 32 - 47
Hlavní autoři: Graziotin, Daniel, Fagerholm, Fabian, Wang, Xiaofeng, Abrahamsson, Pekka
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Elsevier Inc 01.06.2018
Témata:
Affect
Behavioral software engineering
Computer software selection and evaluation
Cost effectiveness
Developer experience
Emotion
Happiness
Human aspects
Productivity
Software design
Software engineering
Behavioral software engineering
Happiness
Emotion
Affect
Developer experience
Human aspects
ISSN:0164-1212, 1873-1228, 1873-1228
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Shrnutí:•Consequences of happiness and unhappiness among software developers detailed.•More positive consequences of happiness are experienced related to the self.•More negative consequences of unhappiness are experienced for external factors.•Results based on qualitative analysis of more than 300 developers’ experiences.•Category scheme of consequences usable for further studies and as guidelines. The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding happiness and unhappiness in all its components – positive and negative emotions and moods – is an attractive and important endeavor. Scholars in industrial and organizational psychology have suggested that understanding happiness and unhappiness could lead to cost-effective ways of enhancing working conditions, job performance, and to limiting the occurrence of psychological disorders. Our comprehension of the consequences of (un)happiness among developers is still too shallow, being mainly expressed in terms of development productivity and software quality. In this paper, we study what happens when developers are happy and unhappy while developing software. Qualitative data analysis of responses given by 317 questionnaire participants identified 42 consequences of unhappiness and 32 of happiness. We found consequences of happiness and unhappiness that are beneficial and detrimental for developers’ mental well-being, the software development process, and the produced artifacts. Our classification scheme, available as open data enables new happiness research opportunities of cause-effect type, and it can act as a guideline for practitioners for identifying damaging effects of unhappiness and for fostering happiness on the job.
ISSN:0164-1212
1873-1228
1873-1228
DOI:10.1016/j.jss.2018.02.041