Abstract

According to authors best knowledge, this workshop paper makes two novel extensions to software engineering research. First, we create and execute a daily questionnaire monitoring the work well-being of software developers through a period of eight months. Second, we utilize statistical methods developed for discovering psychological dynamics to analyze this data. Our questionnaire includes elements from job satisfaction surveys and one software development specific element. The data were collected every day for a period of 8 months in a single software development project producing 526 answers from eight developers. The preliminary analysis shows the strongest correlations between hurry and interruptions. Additionally, we constructed temporal and contemporaneous network models used for discovering psychological dynamics from the questionnaire responses. In the future, we will try to establish links between the survey responses and the measures collected by conducting software repository mining and sentiment analysis.