A systematic review of theory use in studies investigating the motivations of software engineers

A systematic review of theory use in studies investigating the motivations of software engineers
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对软件工程师动机研究中理论运用的系统回顾

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10.1145/1525880.1525883
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2009
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Hall T
Hall T
中科院分区:
计算机科学1区
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有动力的软件工程师为交付成功的软件系统做出了关键贡献。了解软件工程师的动机和动机对软件工程成果的影响,可以显着影响行业的能力,提供高质量的软件系统。理解人们的动机通常与他们的工作有关,这是由社会科学中的八个经典动机理论所支撑的。我们希望这些经典的动机理论在发展对软件工程师特定动机的严格理解方面发挥重要作用。在这篇文章中,我们将探讨如何利用这一理论基础在以前的研究软件工程。我们分析了1980年至2006年间发表在文献中的92项关于软件工程动机的研究。我们的主要发现是,许多研究软件工程师的动机没有明确的基础上参考经典的激励理论。此外,这些研究中提出的调查结果往往没有根据这些理论进行明确解释,尽管在许多情况下,这些调查结果与理论之间存在联系。我们的结论是,虽然已经有大量的以前的工作在软件工程中的动机,缺乏参考经典理论的动机意味着,目前的身体工作在该地区被削弱,我们的理解在软件工程中的动机并不严格,因为它可能在第一次出现。目前知识状态的这种弱点突出了未来研究人员在激励软件工程师方面为开发严格和可用的知识体系做出贡献的重要领域。
Motivated software engineers make a critical contribution to delivering successful software systems. Understanding the motivations of software engineers and the impact of motivation on software engineering outcomes could significantly affect the industry's ability to deliver good quality software systems. Understanding the motivations of people generally in relation to their work is underpinned by eight classic motivation theories from the social sciences. We would expect these classic motivation theories to play an important role in developing a rigorous understanding of the specific motivations of software engineers. In this article we investigate how this theoretical basis has been exploited in previous studies of software engineering. We analyzed 92 studies of motivation in software engineering that were published in the literature between 1980 and 2006. Our main findings are that many studies of software engineers' motivations are not explicitly underpinned by reference to the classic motivation theories. Furthermore, the findings presented in these studies are often not explicitly interpreted in terms of those theories, despite the fact that in many cases there is a relationship between those findings and the theories. Our conclusion is that although there has been a great deal of previous work looking at motivation in software engineering, the lack of reference to classic theories of motivation means that the current body of work in the area is weakened and our understanding of motivation in software engineering is not as rigorous as it may at first appear. This weakness in the current state of knowledge highlights important areas for future researchers to contribute towards developing a rigorous and usable body of knowledge in motivating software engineers.
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