Author(s)

Simon Park

Affiliation(s)

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawai, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Corresponding Author

Simon Park

ABSTRACT

Software development is a complex task. In recent years, emotions in software development activities have received more and more attention. On the one hand, researchers focus on using text sentiment analysis to obtain emotional states in software development, study how to improve the analysis accuracy of existing sentiment analysis tools in the field of software development, and propose effective sentiment analysis tools or methods for the field of software development; on the other hand, researchers focus on using text sentiment analysis to obtain emotional states in software development. On the other hand, researchers have also conducted empirical research on the emotional state and its influencing factors and effects in software development through actual project data. This article explains the emotional state in software development in recent years from the aspects of the current situation of emotional analysis, emotional characteristics in software development, some mainstream tools and main methods of emotional analysis, existing empirical research, and research on the impact of emotion on software development. Current research status of analysis. Finally, some existing problems and future development trends of sentiment analysis in software development are prospected.

KEYWORDS

Sentiment analysis; Opinion mining; Software engineering; Open source community

CITE THIS PAPER

Simon Park. A review of research on emotional state analysis in software development. Journal of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. 2024, 6(1): 16-24. DOI: 10.61784/jcsee240121.

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