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A Scoping Review of the Literature on the Current Mental Health Status of Developers

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Information and Communication Technology and Applications (ICTA 2020)

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Abstract

Year after year the need for technical solutions increased, which made the role of software developers more important. However, researchers found that developers' productivity increased based on their happiness and unhappiness. In addition, focusing on the developer’s happiness will provide more problem solvers with better abilities of analysis. To understand the happiness and unhappiness of software developers, we need to process in the behavioral software engineering (BSE) area. In this research, we gathered related problems and generate hypotheses that solve those problems. Besides, we specify a research plan for each hypothesis.

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We would like to thank Dr. Masud Hasan for his valuable comments and helpful suggestion.

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  1. Computer Science Departement, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia

    Ghaida Albakri & Rahma Bouaziz

  2. ReDCAD, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Rahma Bouaziz

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  1. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  2. Federal University of Technology Minna, Minna, Nigeria

    Bilkisu Muhammad-Bello

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Albakri, G., Bouaziz, R. (2021). A Scoping Review of the Literature on the Current Mental Health Status of Developers. In: Misra, S., Muhammad-Bello, B. (eds) Information and Communication Technology and Applications. ICTA 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1350. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69143-1_37

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