Ethnography is a qualitative research method used to study people and cultures. It is largely
adopted in disciplines outside software engineering, including different areas of computer …

Human-algorithm interaction is a growing phenomenon of interest as the use of machine
learning (ML) capabilities in everyday technologies becomes more commonplace. In the …

The development of methods tools and process improvements is best to be based on the
understanding of the development practice to be supported. Qualitative research has been …

Context Methods and processes, along with the tools to support them, are at the heart of
software engineering as a discipline. However, as we all know, that often the use of the …

Testing is a key part of any systems engineering project. There is an extensive literature on
testing, but very little that focuses on how testing is carried out in real-world circumstances …

Empirical research on collaborative software development practices indicates that technical
and social aspects of software development are often intertwined. The processes followed …

Abstract Background In Global Software Development (GSD) the lack of face-to-face
communication is a major challenge and effective computer-mediated practices are …

Almost twenty years have passed since the first qualitative research study in software
engineering was published [14]. Using qualitative methods and a qualitative analytical …

In collaborative software development projects, work items are used as a mechanism to
coordinate tasks and track shared development work. In this paper, we explore how …

Most studies of plans and situated work have applied ethnographic methods and and thus
fail to provide any quantitative insight into the extent of this phenomenon. We present a …