What is it about?
Software engineering (SE) is an excellent context for experiencing flow. We studied, what are the characteristics of experiencing flow in software engineering and how can flow experiences be facilitated in software developers' work. The experiences were characterized by absorption, effortless control, intrinsic reward, and high performance. The most important facilitating factors were an optimal challenge, high motivation, positive developer experience (DX), and no distractions or interruptions.
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Why is it important?
Our findings increase the holistic understanding of flow experiences in software engineering an dcontribute to the research on human aspects of SE. Most importantly, what are the specific characteristics and facilitating factors of software developers' flow.
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This page is a summary of: Flow Experience in Software Engineering, November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3611643.3616263.
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