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Basten, Dirk, Mueller, Marcel, Ott, Marion ORCID: 0000-0001-5199-4664, Pankratz, Oleg and Rosenkranz, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0003-4286-4176 (2021). Impact of time pressure on software quality: A laboratory experiment on a game-theoretical model. PLoS One, 16 (1). SAN FRANCISCO: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Research suggests the relationship between time pressure and software quality to be more complex than presumed. While software developers can adjust their output to improve observed performance at the expense of software quality, the latter has been found to increase with time pressure in case of work-pace dependent incentives. An untested, but widely disseminated game-theoretical model seeks to resolve this contradiction and hypothesizes that high rates of time pressure avoid so-called 'shortcuts', which occur in the form of imperfections induced by developers to meet unrealistically tight deadlines. We conduct two laboratory experiments to empirically test this model for the first time. Our results corroborate the model with regard to its suggestion that shortcuts can be reduced if developers perceive unrealistic deadlines as ever-present. However, we also show that the actual critical probability of unrealistic deadlines-the point at which shortcut taking is drastically reduced-is above the theoretical one. Although final conclusions on the impact of time pressure on software quality remain to be drawn, our results suggest that-considering the contingencies of our study-time pressure helps in striving for quality in software projects.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Basten, Dirk UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mueller, Marcel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ott, Marion UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-5199-4664 UNSPECIFIED Pankratz, Oleg UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rosenkranz, Christoph UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4286-4176 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-579622
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0245599
Journal or Publication Title:	PLoS One
Volume:	16
Number:	1
Date:	2021
Publisher:	PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN FRANCISCO
ISSN:	1932-6203
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PROJECT-MANAGEMENT; PRISONERS-DILEMMA; INFORMATION; COOPERATION; PERFORMANCE; PERSONALITY; ONLINE Multiple languages Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57962