Grounded Theory in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines

By Klaas-Jan Stol, Paul Ralph, Brian Fitzgerald. International Conference on Software Engineering, 2016

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A Survey of DevOps Concepts and Challenges (2019, methodology): “ual maps was based on Grounded Theory, which is a recognized method for conducting emergent qualitative research [66] and whose adoption in software engineering has grown considerably in recent years [117]. According to Charmaz, it reduces preconceived ideas about the research problem and helps rese”
Grounded Copilot: How Programmers Interact with Code-Generating Models (2022, methodology): “[Stol et al. 2016] provide a survey and a critical evaluation of 93 GT studies in software engineering.”
Jailbreaking ChatGPT via Prompt Engineering: An Empirical Study (2023, methodology): “To address this concern, the three authors individually performed each task using the open-coding methodology [13], ensuring a more objective and consistent evaluation.”
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines (2020, methodology): “Critical reviews in software engineering often investigate methodological topics; for example, how grounded theory and ethnography are reported (Stol et al. 2016; Zhang et al. 2019) or how qualitative research is synthesized (Huang et al. 2018).”