Toward a Better Understanding of How to Develop Software Under Stress - Drafting the Lines for Future Research
This addresses the challenge of improving software quality and developer well-being under stress, but it is incremental as it proposes a research framework without presenting new results.
The paper tackles the problem of understanding how software development practices affect developer performance under time constraints, aiming to identify optimal conditions for stressful environments by collecting data through questionnaires, non-invasive tools, and biophysical sensors.
The software is often produced under significant time constraints. Our idea is to understand the effects of various software development practices on the performance of developers working in stressful environments, and identify the best operating conditions for software developed under stressful conditions collecting data through questionnaires, non-invasive software measurement tools that can collect measurable data about software engineers and the software they develop, without intervening their activities, and biophysical sensors and then try to recreated also in different processes or key development practices such conditions.