Programmer Experience: – An HCI Prespective

User experience (abbreviated as UX) is how a user feels when interacting with a particular system. Not only does it include user’s direct interactions with the system, but also how it helps the user in the overall satisfactory completion of a particular task. Software programmers are also users of a specific systems, and several types of artifacts related to software development lifecycle. We performed a systematic mapping about Programmer eXperience (PX). In this paper we considered the programmers as a type of users of an IDE and different programming and system related artifacts. After studying different research articles about programmer experiences related to different programming languages, tools and environments, we analyzed that most of the currently available literature focuses on PX from a Computer Software Engineering perspective, also it has been felt that there is an increasing interest in the PX topic, but still the main concept is not clearly defined and understood. Thus, we have tried to focus our main research work on programmer’s experience from a Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) perspective. Most of current literature and research work focuses on the usability and PX aspects focusing on four topics: (i) programming languages, (ii) programmers’ interaction with integrated development environment, (iii) application programming interfaces, and (iv) programmers’ behavior. This represents a research opportunity for this systematic review and others that can be performed.