Reviewing Literature on Time Pressure in Software Engineering and Related Professions - Computer Assisted Interdisciplinary Literature Review
This work addresses the problem of understanding time pressure's effects on mental health in software engineering, but it is incremental as it primarily reviews existing literature without new empirical results.
The paper conducted an interdisciplinary literature review of 1270 papers to analyze time pressure across fields, finding it is widely studied but relatively little in software engineering, and derived testable hypotheses for future studies on its impact on software developers' mental health.
During the past years, psychological diseases related to unhealthy work environments, such as burnouts, have drawn more and more public attention. One of the known causes of these affective problems is time pressure. In order to form a theoretical background for time pressure detection in software repositories, this paper combines interdisciplinary knowledge by analyzing 1270 papers found on Scopus database and containing terms related to time pressure. By clustering those papers based on their abstract, we show that time pressure has been widely studied across different fields, but relatively little in software engineering. From a literature review of the most relevant papers, we infer a list of testable hypotheses that we want to verify in future studies in order to assess the impact of time pressures on software developers mental health.