Presentation: guidelines for psychoempirical software engineering

Abstract: Affects--emotions and moods--have an impact on cognitive processing activities and the working performance of individuals. It has been established that software development tasks are undertaken through cognitive processing activities. Therefore, we have proposed to employ psychology theory and measurements in software engineering (SE) research. We have called it "psychoempirical software engineering". However, we found out that existing SE research has often fallen into misconceptions about the affect of developers, lacking in background theory and how to successfully employ psychological measurements in studies. The contribution of this paper is threefold. (1) It highlights the challenges to conduct proper affect-related studies with psychology; (2) it provides a comprehensive literature review in affect theory; and (3) it proposes guidelines for conducting psychoempirical software engineering. This is the presentation of the article D. Graziotin, X. Wang, and P. Abrahamsson, “Understanding the Affect of Developers: Theoretical Background and Guidelines for Psychoempirical Software Engineering”, Proc. 2015 ACM 7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE 2015), pp. 25-32, 2015. DOI 10.1145/2804381.2804386 It only mentions the guidelines for psychoempirical software engineering because of restricted presentation time.摘要：情感（即情绪与心境）会对个体的认知加工活动及工作绩效产生显著影响。业已证实，软件开发任务的开展依赖于认知加工活动。据此，我们提出将心理学理论与测量方法应用于软件工程（Software Engineering, SE）研究，并将该研究范式命名为“心理实证软件工程（psychoempirical software engineering）”。然而我们发现，现有软件工程研究往往对开发者的情感存在认知误区，既缺乏相应的背景理论支撑，也未明确如何在研究中有效应用心理学测量手段。本文的研究贡献主要包含三点：其一，阐明了基于心理学开展规范的情感相关研究所面临的核心挑战；其二，梳理了情感领域的全面文献综述；其三，提出了开展心理实证软件工程研究的指导准则。本文为D. Graziotin、X. Wang与P. Abrahamsson发表的论文《开发者情感研究：心理实证软件工程的理论基础与指导准则（Understanding the Affect of Developers: Theoretical Background and Guidelines for Psychoempirical Software Engineering）》的会议报告内容，该论文收录于2015年第7届ACM社会软件工程国际研讨会（2015 ACM 7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, SSE 2015），页码范围为25-32，DOI为10.1145/2804381.2804386。由于汇报时长受限，本次报告仅提及了心理实证软件工程相关的指导准则部分。