Do developers feel emotions? an exploratory analysis of emotions in software artifacts

Murgia, Alessandro; Tourani, Parastou; Adams, Bram; Ortu, Marco

doi:10.1145/2597073.2597086

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“…Murgia et al [9] manually analyzed whether development artifacts like issue reports carry any emotional information about software development. The significant result of the study, that paved the way to our study, is that issue reports express emotions towards design choices, maintenance activity or colleagues.…”

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“…In previous research [9], the authors manually analyzed whether discussion boards like bug repositories contain emotional content. They indeed found evidence of gratitude, joy and sadness, and also weak evidence that the presence of emotions like gratitude was related with faster issue resolution time.…”

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“…This three metrics have been used by other researchers, i.e., politeness [23] and [24], sentiment [25] and [26], and emotion [9].…”

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Abstract-Human Affectiveness, i.e., the emotional state of a person, plays a crucial role in many domains where it can make or break a team's ability to produce successful products. Software development is a collaborative activity as well, yet there is little information on how affectiveness impacts software productivity. As a first measure of this impact, this paper analyzes the relation between sentiment, emotions and politeness of developers in more than 560K Jira comments with the time to fix a Jira issue. We found that the happier developers are (expressing emotions such as JOY and LOVE in their comments), the shorter the issue fixing time is likely to be. In contrast, negative emotions such as SADNESS, are linked with longer issue fixing time. Politeness plays a more complex role and we empirically analyze its impact on developers' productivity.

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“…Based on evidence of previous research [19,21,22,25], we used the issue fixing time and politeness as proxy metrics for the team productivity and level of collaboration, respectively. We present two logistic regression representing the average time required to solve an issue by development teams and the communication level measured by the politeness of a team.…”

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“…[10, 13,21,22,23,24,26]. In the following, we briefly introduce politeness and the methodology used to infer GitHub development teams.…”

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How diverse is your team? Investigating gender and nationality diversity in GitHub teams

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Abstract. Building an effective team of developers is a complex task faced by both software companies and open source communities. The problem of forming a "dream" team involves many variables, including consideration of human factors, and it is not a dilemma solvable in a mathematical way. Empirical studies might provide interesting insights to explain which factors need to be taken into account in building a team of developers and which levers act to optimise collaboration and productivity among developers. In this paper, we present the results of an empirical study aimed at investigating the link between team diversity (i.e., gender, nationality) and productivity (issue fixing time). We consider issues solved from the GHTorrent dataset inferring gender and nationality of each team's members. We also evaluate the politeness of all comments involved in issue resolution. Results show that higher gender diversity is linked with a lower team average issue fixing time and that nationality diversity is linked with lower team politeness.

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The impact of GitHub on students' learning and engagement in a software engineering course

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2024

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GitHub, a widely used software development platform, facilitates organization of projects and collaboration. Its popularity extends to students who use it to host code and create open repositories for class projects. However, despite its potential benefits, the use of GitHub in education has often been unplanned and lacked structure. Consequently, the effectiveness of GitHub in improving student learning and project development skills remains unclear. This study explores the impact of using GitHub as a tool in a software engineering course on students' skill sets and perspectives. We present the results of an experiment conducted with 319 undergraduate students to assess whether using GitHub improves their engagement in teamwork and subsequently enhances learning. The study conducted pre‐ and postsurveys to capture students' perspectives and experiences. Additionally, we analyzed the number of commits, pull requests (PRs), and issues from group repositories to assess learning outcomes. Our findings revealed that most students had limited knowledge of collaborative development and teamwork before using GitHub in the course. However, after using GitHub, they demonstrated effective use of teamwork skills and collaborative development, resulting in significant improvements in their overall learning.

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Do developers feel emotions? an exploratory analysis of emotions in software artifacts

Cited by 166 publications

References 33 publications

Are Bullies More Productive? Empirical Study of Affectiveness vs. Issue Fixing Time

Are Bullies More Productive? Empirical Study of Affectiveness vs. Issue Fixing Time

How diverse is your team? Investigating gender and nationality diversity in GitHub teams

The impact of GitHub on students' learning and engagement in a software engineering course

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