3 papers
cs.SE2021
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…
cs.SE2021
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…
cs.SE2020
Retrieving and mining professional experience of software practice from grey literature: an exploratory review
Austen Rainer, Ashley Williams, Vahid Garousi +1
Background: Retrieving and mining practitioners' self--reports of their professional experience of software practice could provide valuable evidence for research. We are, however,…