Editing Research:Question-01-Factor-Performance-Correlation (section)

=== Factor 4: Creative Problem-Solving Empirical Evidence ===

**Direct empirical study of problem-solving and developer performance:** The most significant empirical research directly measuring problem-solving skills and developer performance outcomes.

<blockquote>"The most significant empirical study is 'Happy software developers solve problems better' which studied 42 participants to investigate the relationship between affective states, creativity, and analytical problem-solving skills of software developers, finding that happy developers are indeed better problem solvers in terms of their analytical abilities."</blockquote>

**Debugging performance correlations:** Specific research on problem-solving applications in debugging tasks.

<blockquote>"Two empirical studies examined the impact of affective states on developers' debugging performance, providing empirical evidence for a positive correlation between the affective states of software developers and their debugging performance."</blockquote>

**Expert-novice performance differential analysis:** Research revealing how problem-solving expertise differentiates developer performance levels.

<blockquote>"An exploratory study investigated expert and novice debugging processes, finding that an expert-novice classification based on subjects' ability to chunk effectively the program they were required to debug was strongly related to debugging strategy."</blockquote>

**Problem-solving as fundamental success predictor:** Industry analysis positioning problem-solving as the core developer capability.

<blockquote>"Problem solving is identified as 'the most important skill a developer needs' and 'the core thing software developers do,' with programming languages and tools being secondary to this fundamental skill."</blockquote>

Sources: [https://peerj.com/articles/289/ Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering] - PeerJ; [https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00922v1 arXiv preprint] - arXiv