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The establishment of a strong theory base has been identified as an important challenge for the software engineering discipline.
“This is a significant issue as the establishment of a strong theory base has been identified as an important challenge for the software engineering discipline [50, 65, 66].”
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Grounded theory in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines
Stol, K.-J., Ralph, P., & Fitzgerald, B. (2016) · Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering · doi:10.1145/2884781.2884833 · Cited by 470 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Stol, K.-J., & Fitzgerald, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Limerick (IE)
- Corresponding author
- Stol, Klaas-Jan
- Venue
- Science of Computer Programming
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-04
- Volume
- 101
- Pages
- 79-98
- ISSN
- 0167-6423 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2140819045
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 8
- FWCI
- 16.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Science of Computer Programming (publishedVersion)
- Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology) (acceptedVersion)
- University of Limerick Institutional Repository (University of Limerick) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- University of Limerick Institutional Repository (University of Limerick) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- University of Limerick Institutional Repository (University of Limerick)
- Funders
- Science Foundation Ireland (10/CE/I1855)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Keywords
- conceptualization, theory development, research design, evidence-based software engineering, engineering sciences
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