Research Index

Developers talking about code quality

Build Latency, Predictability, and Developer Productivity

Modern Code Reviews—Survey of Literature and Practice

A Model for Understanding and Reducing Developer Burnout

DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity

The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Potential of Hybrid Work for Software Engineers

Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools

Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt

A Conceptual Framework for Developer Experience

Using Logs Data to Identify When Software Engineers Experience Flow or Focused Work

Competencies for Code Review

Nudge: Accelerating Overdue Pull Requests Toward Completion

Satisfaction and Performance of Software Developers During Enforced Work From Home in the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Framework for Emotion-Oriented Requirements Change Handling in Agile Software Engineering

Are We Speeding Up or Slowing Down? On Temporal Aspects of Code Velocity

Burnout in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study

Hybrid Productivity

Improving Design Reviews at Google

Destructive Criticism in Software Code Review Impacts Inclusion

What Improves Developer Productivity at Google? Code Quality

The Psychology of Architecture Decision Records

How Developers and Managers Define and Trade Productivity for Quality

An Exploratory Study of Productivity Perceptions in Software Teams

The Emotional Roller Coaster of Responding to Requirements Changes in Software Engineering

Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers

A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development

A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

AI in Software Engineering at Facebook

Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace

Please Turn Your Cameras On: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers during a Pandemic

The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s more to it than you think

‘How Was Your Weekend?’ Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19

Mind the Gap: On the Relationship Between Automatically Measured and Self-Reported Productivity

Predicting Developers’ Negative Feelings About Code Review

What Do We Know About Time Pressure in Software Development?

The Influence of Technical Debt on Software Developer Morale

What Distinguishes Great Software Engineers?

Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting

Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity

Do Developers Learn New Tools On The Toilet?

Defining Productivity in Software Engineering

How Do Interruptions Affect Productivity?

Fitbit for Developers: Self-Monitoring at Work

Understanding Personal Productivity: How Knowledge Workers Define, Evaluate, and Reflect on Their Productivity

What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?

The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers

What happens when software developers are (un)happy

Technical Debt Cripples Software Developer Productivity

DevOps Metrics: Your Biggest Mistake Might Be Collecting the Wrong Data

The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity

What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?

Which Factors Influence Practitioners' Usage of Build Automation Tools?

Characterizing and predicting mental fatigue during programming tasks

Software Development Waste

On the Unhappiness of Software Developers

Code Ownership and Software Quality

Software Developers' Perceptions of Productivity

System Design and The Cost of Architectural Complexity

Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review

Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge

If Not Now, When?: The Effects of Interruption at Different Moments Within Task Execution