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Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research
Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin
Context: Software practitioners are a primary provider of information for field studies in software engineering. Research typically recruits practitioners through some kind of samp…
Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles
Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer
Blogs are a source of grey literature which are widely adopted by software practitioners for disseminating opinion and experience. Analysing such articles can provide useful insigh…
Storytelling in human--centric software engineering research
Austen Rainer
BACKGROUND: Software engineering is a human activity. People naturally make sense of their activities and experience through storytelling. But storytelling does not appear to have…
Practitioner-generated blog posts as evidence for software engineering research: attitudinal survey and preliminary checklist
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams
Background: Blog posts are frequently used by software practitioners to share information about their practice. Blog posts therefore provide a potential source of evidence for soft…