Software Engineering Unlocked

Do code reviews frustrate developers?

Feb 22, 2023

38:33

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The Software Engineering Unlocked Podcast

01:39

How Do You Detect Confusion in Code Reviews?

01:37

Emotions in Code Reviews

02:44

Introduction

2min

How Do Emotions Affect Productivity of Software Developers?

4min

What Makes You Happy or Unhappy?

3min

Is Your Emotion More Directly Connected to Productivity?

2min

The Relationship Between Productivity and Emotions

2min

Are You Fatigued?

3min

Coffee Breaks Can Reduce the Social Anxiety of Asking for Help

2min

Emotions in Code Reviews

3min

How Do You Detect Confusion in Code Reviews?

2min

10.

Code Review Comments - Are They Written?

2min

11.

Understanding the Communication Intention

5min

12.

Is Asking Questions a Good Strategy?

2min

13.

What's Your Advice for Software Engineers?

3min

14.

Working From Home and the Pandemic

2min

15.

The Software Engineering Unlocked Podcast

2min

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Episode Resources:
Alexander's Twitter
Alexander's Research
Awesome Code Reviews
Papers:
An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews
Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace
Recognizing developers' emotions while programming
Gendered Experiences of Software Engineers During the COVID-19 Crisis
Developer experience research paper

About Alexander Serebrenik
Alexander is a Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Alexander’s research goal is to facilitate evolution of software by taking into account social aspects of software development.

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