“Frustrating, Stressful, and Overwhelming”: Insights into Software Practitioners’ Productivity from Stack Exchange Discussions
Resumo
Context: Productivity is a central concern in software engineering, but traditional approaches often overlook the human aspects of daily work. Aims: To investigate how software practitioners perceive productivity challenges and how they impact their well-being and their tasks. Method: We conducted a thematic analysis of grey literature, drawing from discussions in two Stack Exchange communities (Software Engineering and Project Management). Results: We identified 21 factors that affect productivity, emphasizing time management, adopting new standards and technologies, difficulty measuring productivity, and context switching. These challenges reflect technical issues and human concerns such as demotivation and psychological pressure, showing that productivity cannot be understood in isolation. The study also revealed 17 direct impacts on professionals, including stress and perceived fluctuations in productivity, and 8 impacts on tasks, such as delays and rework. Conclusion: This study offers a broader understanding of productivity in software engineering by connecting technical and human factors. It highlights the value of grey literature in uncovering underexplored dimensions of practitioners’ experiences.
Palavras-chave:
Productivity, Grey Literature, Software engineering, Non-technical factors
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Julio César Andrade Silva, Lidiany Cerqueira Santos, Beatriz Santana, Glauco Carneiro, Sávio Freire, Manoel Mendonça, and José Amancio Macedo Santos. 2025. Analysis Spreadsheet: Software Engineering and Project Management Forums on Stack Exchange. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15285102
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Lidiany Cerqueira, Sávio Freire, Danilo Ferreira Neves, João Pedro Silva Bastos, Beatriz Santana, Rodrigo Spínola, Manoel Mendonça, and José Amancio Macedo Santos. 2024. Empathy and Its Effects on Software Practitioners’ Well-Being and Mental Health. IEEE Software 41, 4 (2024), 95–104. DOI: 10.1109/MS.2024.3377897
Lidiany Cerqueira, Lourene Nunes, Renan Guerra, Viviane Malheiros, Sávio Freire, Glauco Carneiro, Julio Cesar Leite, Rodrigo Spínola, José Amancio Macedo Santos, and Manoel Mendonça. 2025. Assessing Software Practitioners’ Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction in a Large Software Company—WhatWe Have Learned. SN Computer Science 6, 3 (2025), 273.
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Laura Dabbish, Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, and Jim Herbsleb. 2012. Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Seattle, Washington, USA) (CSCW ’12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1277–1286. DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145396
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Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne Storey, Chandra Maddila, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, and Jenna Butler. 2021. The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s More to It than You Think. Queue 19, 1 (feb 2021), 20–48. DOI: 10.1145/3454122.3454124
Sávio Freire, Felipe Gomes, Larissa Barbosa, Thiago Souto Mendes, Galdir Reges, Rita S. P. Maciel, Manoel Mendonça, and Rodrigo Spínola. 2023. Requirements Engineering Issues Experienced by Software Practitioners: A Study on Stack Exchange. In Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 29th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2023, Barcelona, Spain, April 17–20, 2023, Proceedings (Barcelona, Spain). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 3–20. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29786-1_1
Norman Gaither and Greg Frazier. 2002. Administração da produção de operações (8 ed.). Pioneira, São Paulo.
Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, and Mika V. Mäntylä. 2016. The Need for Multivocal Literature Reviews in Software Engineering: Complementing Systematic Literature Reviews with Grey Literature. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (Limerick, Ireland) (EASE ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 6 pages. DOI: 10.1145/2915970.2916008
Felipe Gomes, Eder Santos, Sávio Freire, Thiago Souto Mendes, Manoel Mendonça, and Rodrigo Spínola. 2023. Investigating the Point of Viewof Project Management Practitioners on Technical Debt-A Study on Stack Exchange. Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development 11, 1 (2023), 12–1.
Felipe Gomes, Eder Pereira dos Santos, Sávio Freire, Manoel Mendonça, Thiago Souto Mendes, and Rodrigo Spínola. 2022. Investigating the Point of View of Project Management Practitioners on Technical Debt: A Preliminary Study on Stack Exchange. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Technical Debt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) (TechDebt ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 31–40. DOI: 10.1145/3524843.3528095
Daniel Graziotin and Fabian Fagerholm. 2019. Happiness and the Productivity of Software Engineers. Apress, Berkeley, CA, 109–124. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_10
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João Eduardo Montandon, Cristiano Politowski, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Marco Tulio Valente, Fabio Petrillo, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. 2021. What skills do IT companies look for in new developers? A study with Stack Overflow jobs. Information and Software Technology 129 (2021), 106429. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106429
Emerson Murphy-Hill and Stefan Wagner. 2019. Software Productivity Through the Lens of Knowledge Work. Apress, Berkeley, CA, 57–65. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_7
Edson Oliveira, Tayana Conte, Marco Cristo, and Emilia Mendes. 2016. Software Project Managers’ Perceptions of Productivity Factors: Findings from a Qualitative Study. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (Ciudad Real, Spain) (ESEM ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 15, 6 pages. DOI: 10.1145/2961111.2962626
Edson Oliveira, Tayana Conte, Marco Cristo, and Natasha Valentim. 2018. Influence Factors in Software Productivity - A Tertiary Literature Review. In International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. KSI Research Inc. and Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, San Francisco, California, 1795–1810. DOI: 10.18293/seke2018-149
Antônio Carlos M. de Paula, Carlos Frederico J. Muakad, Sávio Freire, Rodrigo Spínola, and Manoel Mendonça. 2024. Burnout in Software Projects: An Analysis of Stack Exchange Discussions. In Proceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 321–330. DOI: 10.1145/3701625.3701670
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Yuri W. Ramírez and David A. Nembhard. 2004. Measuring knowledge worker productivity. Journal of Intellectual Capital 5, 4 (Dec. 2004), 602–628. DOI: 10.1108/14691930410567040
Marcelo B Ribeiro, Ricardo M Czekster, and Thais Webber. 2006. Improving Productivity of Local Software Development Teams in a Global Software Development Environment. Engineering 1-2 (2006), 1–2.
M.R. Roller and P.J. Lavrakas. 2015. Applied Qualitative Research Design: A Total Quality Framework Approach. Guilford Publications, New York.
Caitlin Sadowski and Thomas Zimmermann (Eds.). 2019. Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering. Apress, New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6
Suzana Candido Barros Sampaio, Emanuella Aleixo Barros, Gibeon Soares de Aquino, Mauro Jose Carlos e Silva, and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira. 2010. A Review of Productivity Factors and Strategies on Software Development. In 2010 Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances. IEEE, Nice, France, 196–204. DOI: 10.1109/icsea.2010.37
Beatriz Santana, Sávio Freire, José Amancio Macedo Santos, and Manoel Mendonça. 2024. Psychological Safety in the SoftwareWork Environment. IEEE Softw. 41, 4 (July 2024), 86–94. DOI: 10.1109/MS.2024.3386532
Beatriz Silva De Santana, Sávio Freire, Leandro Cruz, Lidivânio Monte, Manoel Mendonca, and José Amancio Macedo Santos. 2023. Exploring Psychological Safety in Software Engineering: Insights from Stack Exchange. In Proceedings of the XXXVII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (Campo Grande, Brazil) (SBES ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 503–513. DOI: 10.1145/3613372.3613411
W. Scacchi. 1989. Understanding Software Productivity: A Comparative Empirical Review. Technical Report. Institute for Software Research, University of California.
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Elena García-Barriocanal, and Salvador Sánchez-Alonso. 2017. Community Curation in Open Dataset Repositories: Insights from Zenodo. Procedia Computer Science 106 (2017), 54–60. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2017.03.009
Julio César Andrade Silva, Lidiany Cerqueira Santos, Beatriz Santana, Glauco Carneiro, Sávio Freire, Manoel Mendonça, and José Amancio Macedo Santos. 2025. Analysis Spreadsheet: Software Engineering and Project Management Forums on Stack Exchange. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15285102
Amjed Tahir, Jens Dietrich, Steve Counsell, Sherlock Licorish, and Aiko Yamashita. 2020. A large scale study on how developers discuss code smells and anti-pattern in Stack Exchange sites. Information and Software Technology 125 (2020), 106333. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106333
Adam Trendowicz and Jürgen Münch. 2009. Factors Influencing Software Development Productivity—State-of-the-Art and Industrial Experiences. In Advances in Computers, Volume 77. Advances in Computers, Vol. 77. Elsevier, USA, 185–241. DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2458(09)01206-6
Stefan Wagner and Florian Deissenboeck. 2019. Defining Productivity in Software Engineering. Apress, Berkeley, CA, 29–38. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_4
Stefan Wagner and Emerson Murphy-Hill. 2019. Factors That Influence Productivity: A Checklist. In Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering, Caitlin Sadowski and Thomas Zimmermann (Eds.). Apress, Berkeley, CA, 69–84. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_8
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SILVA, Júlio César Andrade; CERQUEIRA, Lidiany; SANTANA, Beatriz; CARNEIRO, Glauco de Figueiredo; FREIRE, Sávio; MENDONÇA, Manoel; SANTOS, José Amancio Macedo.
“Frustrating, Stressful, and Overwhelming”: Insights into Software Practitioners’ Productivity from Stack Exchange Discussions. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE (SBES), 39. , 2025, Recife/PE.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
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ISSN 2833-0633.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2025.9914.
