Stress pervades our everyday life to the point of being considered the scourge of the modern industrial world. The effects of stress on knowledge workers causes, in short term, performance fluctuations, decline of concentration, bad sensorimotor coordination, and an increased error rate, while long term exposure to stress leads to issues such as dissatisfaction, resignation, depression and general psychosomatic ailment and disease. Software developers are known to be stressed workers. Stress has been suggested to have detrimental effects on team morale and motivation, communication and cooperation-dependent work, software quality, maintainability, and requirements management. There is a need to effectively assess, monitor, and reduce stress for software developers. While there is substantial psycho-social and medical research on stress and its measurement, we notice that the transfer of these methods and practices to software engineering has not been fully made. For this reason, we engage in an interdisciplinary endeavor between researchers in software engineering and medical and social sciences towards a better understanding of stress effects while developing software. This article offers two main contributions. First, we provide an overview of supported theories of stress and the many ways to assess stress in individuals. Second, we propose a robust methodology to detect and measure stress in controlled experiments that is tailored to software engineering research. We also evaluate the methodology by implementing it on an experiment, which we first pilot and then replicate in its enhanced form, and report on the results with lessons learned. With this work, we hope to stimulate research on stress in software engineering and inspire future research that is backed up by supported theories and employs psychometrically validated measures.

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在软件工程中对压力进行心理生物学评估的方法

压力弥漫在我们的日常生活中，这一点被认为是现代工业世界的祸害。压力对知识工作者的影响在短期内会导致绩效波动，注意力下降，感觉运动协调不良和错误率增加，而长期暴露于压力下会导致诸如不满，辞职，抑郁和一般心身疾病等问题。和疾病。众所周知，软件开发人员压力很大。有人认为，压力会对团队的士气和动力，与沟通和合作有关的工作，软件质量，可维护性和需求管理产生不利影响。需要有效评估，监视和减轻软件开发人员的压力。尽管在压力及其测度方面进行了大量的社会心理和医学研究，但我们注意到，这些方法和实践向软件工程的转移尚未完全完成。因此，我们致力于软件工程，医学和社会科学领域的研究人员之间的跨学科研究，以便在开发软件时更好地理解压力影响。本文提供了两个主要贡献。首先，我们概述了支持的压力理论以及评估个人压力的多种方法。其次，我们提出了一种鲁棒的方法来检测和测量受控实验中的压力，该方法适合于软件工程研究。我们还通过在实验中实施该方法来评估该方法，我们首先进行试验，然后以增强形式进行复制，并总结经验报告结果。通过这项工作，我们希望激发对软件工程压力的研究，并激发受支持的理论支持并采用经过心理计量验证的措施的未来研究。