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Qualitative Clustering of Software Repositories Based on Software Metrics
IEEE Access, 2023 Software repositories contain a wealth of information about the aspects related to software development process. For this reason, many studies analyze software repositories using methods of data analytics with a focus on clustering.
Yegor Bugayenko +6 more
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Qualitative software engineering research: Reflections and guidelines [PDF]
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 2023 AbstractResearchers are increasingly recognizing the importance of human aspects in software development. Because qualitative methods are used to explore human behavior in‐depth, we believe that studies using such methods will become more common. Existing qualitative software engineering guidelines do not cover the full breadth of qualitative methods ...
Per Lenberg +5 more
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The Diverse Worlds and Research Practices of Qualitative Software
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2012 The article considers the way that digital research technologies and online environments increasingly support new forms of qualitative research that have emerged as a result of new user groups taking up the practice of social research.
Nigel Fielding
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Software for qualitative analysis [Virtual Special Issue on Software for Qualitative Analysis, Editorial] [PDF]
, 2017 This Virtual Issue of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is about the use of software to assist qualitative data analysis, a topic that has been a popular focus since the Journal’s beginning back in 1998. Some articles republished here reflect upon the ‘big issues’ raised by the use of specialist software to support analytical ...
Odena, Oscar
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WordCommentsAnalyzer: A windows software tool for qualitative research [version 2; referees: 2 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2018 There is a lack of free software that provides a professional and smooth experience in text editing and markup for qualitative data analysis. Word processing software like Microsoft Word provides a good editing experience, allowing the researcher to ...
Ehsan Abdekhodaie +3 more
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Review: Silvana di Gregorio & Judith Davidson (2008). Qualitative Research Design for Software Users [PDF]
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2010 The employment of software packages to support different stages of research is increasingly common amongst qualitative scholars. The review addresses DI GREGORIO and DAVIDSON's book, one of the most recent published on this topic, paying particular ...
Alice Mattoni
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Training Software Engineers for Qualitative Evaluation of Software Architecture
CoRR, 2021 A software architect uses quality requirements to design the architecture of a system. However, it is essential to ensure that the system's final architectural design achieves the standard quality requirements. The existing architectural evaluation frameworks require basic skills and experience for practical usage, which novice software architects lack.
Ritu Kapur +3 more
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Qualitative research in software engineering [PDF]
Empirical Software Engineering, 2011 Qualitative research methods were developed in the social sciences to enable researchers to study social and cultural phenomena and are designed to help researchers understand people and the social and cultural contexts within which they live (Denzin and Lincoln 2011).
Tore Dybå +4 more
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Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Software Divide [PDF]
Field Methods, 2010 To compare and combine qualitative and quantitative data collected from respondents in a mixed-methods study, the research team developed a relational database to merge survey responses stored and analyzed in SPSS and semi-structured interview responses stored and analyzed in the qualitative software package ATLAS.ti.
Rachelle, Annechino +2 more
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