Using experience sampling to link software repositories with emotions and work well-being
Kuutila, Miikka; Mäntylä, Mika V.; Claes, Maëlick; Elovainio, Marko; Adams, Bram (2018-10-11)
Miikka Kuutila, Mika V. Mäntylä, Maëlick Claes, Marko Elovainio, and Bram Adams. 2018. Using experience sampling to link software repositories with emotions and work well-being. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 29, 10 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3239235.3239245
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Abstract
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 experience sampling has not been previously used in software engineering.
Aims: Our aim is to identify links between software developers self-reported affective states and work well-being and measures obtained from software repositories.
Method: We perform an experience sampling study in a software company for a period of eight months, we use logistic regression to link the well-being measures with development activities, i.e. number of commits and chat messages.
Results: We find several significant relationships between questionnaire variables and software repository variables. To our surprise relationship between hurry and number of commits is negative, meaning more perceived hurry is linked with a smaller number of commits. We also find a negative relationship between social interaction and hindered work well-being.
Conclusions: The negative link between commits and hurry is counter-intuitive and goes against previous lab-experiments in software engineering that show increased efficiency under time pressure. Overall, our is an initial step in using experience sampling in software engineering and validating theories on work well-being from other fields in the domain of software engineering.
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