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International Conference on Software Engineering archive
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Shanghai, China

TUTORIAL SESSION: Tutorials: full day tutorials table of contents

Pages: 1045 - 1046

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-375-1

Authors

Dewayne E. Perry	The University of Texas at Austin
Susan Elliott Sim	University of California, Irvine
Steve Easterbrook	University of Toronto

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The topic of this full-day tutorial was the correct use and interpretation of case studies as an empirical research method. Using an equal blend of lecture and discussion, it gave attendees a foundation for conducting, reviewing, and reading case studies. There were lessons for software engineers as researchers who conduct and report case studies, reviewers who evaluate papers, and practitioners who are attempting to apply results from papers. The main resource for the course was the book Case Study Research: Design and Methods by Robert K. Yin. This text was supplemented with positive and negative examples from the literature.

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	1	Blanche Geer, Everett C. Hughes, Anselm L. Strauss, and Howard Saul Becker, Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School: Transaction Publications, 1991.
	2	William J. Ray, Methods Toward a Science of Behavior and Experience, Fourth Edition. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1993.
	3	Robert K. Yin, Case Study Research: Design and Methods, 3/e. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002.