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Thematic Review and Analysis of Grounded Theory Application in Software Engineering

Author(s) -

Omar Badreddin

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

advances in software engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1687-8663

pISSN - 1687-8655

DOI - 10.1155/2013/468021

Subject(s) - grounded theory , agile software development , software engineering , computer science , software , process (computing) , social software engineering , coding (social sciences) , software development , thematic analysis , software requirements , software development process , software construction , qualitative research , sociology , programming language , social science

We present metacodes, a new concept to guide grounded theory (GT) research in software engineering. Metacodes are high level codes that can help software engineering researchers guide the data coding process. Metacodes are constructed in the course of analyzing software engineering papers that use grounded theory as a research methodology. We performed a high level analysis to discover common themes in such papers and discovered that GT had been applied primarily in three software engineering disciplines: agile development processes, geographically distributed software development, and requirements engineering. For each category, we collected and analyzed all grounded theory codes and created, following a GT analysis process, what we call metacodes that can be used to drive further theory building. This paper surveys the use of grounded theory in software engineering and presents an overview of successes and challenges of applying this research methodology

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