The analysis of sentimental posts about software testing on Stack Overflow reveals that motivation and commitment of developers to use software testing methods is not only influenced by tools and technology. Rather, attitudes are also influenced by socio-technical factors. No prior studies have attempted to talk with Stack Overflow users about the sentimental posts that they write, yet, this is crucial to understand their experiences of which their post is only a fragment. As such, this study explores the precursors that make developers write sentimental posts about software testing on Stack Overflow. Through semi-structured interviews, we reconstruct the individual experiences of Stack Overflow users leading to sentimental posts about testing. We use the post as an anchor point to explore the events that lead to it and how users moved on in the meantime. Using strategies from socio-technical grounded theory (STGT), we derive hypotheses about the socio-technical factors that cause sentiment towards software testing.

翻译：对Stack Overflow上关于软件测试的情感化帖子进行分析后发现，开发者使用软件测试方法的动机与投入不仅受工具和技术影响，还受到社会技术因素的制约。此前尚无研究尝试与Stack Overflow用户就其撰写的情感化帖子进行交流，然而这对于理解用户经验至关重要——他们的帖子仅是这些经验的片段。为此，本研究探究了促使开发者在Stack Overflow上撰写关于软件测试的情感化帖子的前因。通过半结构化访谈，我们重构了Stack Overflow用户在发布测试相关情感化帖子前的个人经历。以帖子为锚点，我们追溯了引发这类帖子的具体事件，并观察用户后续的应对方式。运用社会技术扎根理论（STGT）的策略，我们推导出关于引发软件测试情感的社会技术因素的假设。