Abstract
Grounded Theory, while becoming increasingly popular in software engineering, is also one of the most misunderstood, misused, and poorly presented and evaluated method in software engineering. When applied well, GT results in dense and valuable explanations of how and why phenomena occur in practice. GT can be applied as a full research method leading to mature theories and also in limited capacity for data analysis within other methods, using its robust open coding and constant comparison procedures. This technical briefing will go through the social origins of GT, present examples of grounded theories developed in SE, discuss the key challenges SE researchers face, and provide a gentle introduction to socio-technical grounded theory, a variant of GT for software engineering research.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering |
Subtitle of host publication | Companion Proceedings ICSE-Companion 2021 |
Editors | Natalia Juristo |
Place of Publication | Piscataway NJ USA |
Publisher | IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Pages | 326-327 |
Number of pages | 2 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781665412193 |
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Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Event | International Conference on Software Engineering 2021 - Online, Madrid, Spain Duration: 23 May 2021 → 30 May 2021 Conference number: 43rd https://conf.researchr.org/committee/icse-2021/icse-2021-organizing-committe https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2021 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9401807/proceeding (Proceedings) |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering |
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Publisher | The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. |
ISSN (Print) | 0270-5257 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Software Engineering 2021 |
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Abbreviated title | ICSE 2021 |
Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Madrid |
Period | 23/05/21 → 30/05/21 |
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Keywords
- grounded theory
- research method
- socio-technical grounded theory
- software engineering