Pessoal teremos um excelente minicurso na próxima quarta feira com a professora Carolyn Seaman (autora de muitos dos artigos que lemos e usamos para aprender como fazer pesquisa qualitativa)
Acredito que ele é imperdível .
Abraço e aguardo vocês lá.
Maiores detalhes abaixo
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>Title: Using Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
>Abstract:
Empirical studies in software engineering are a well-established approach to investigating important research questions. But increasingly the important research questions in our field address the human aspects of software development, and this adds a new layer of complexity to an already challenging area. Along with new research questions, new research methods are needed to study nontechnical aspects of software engineering. In many other disciplines, qualitativeresearch methods have been developed and are commonly used to handle the complexity of issues involving human behavior.
This mini-course presents several qualitative methods for data collection and analysis and describes them in terms of how they might be incorporated into empirical studies of software engineering, in particular how they might be combined with quantitative methods. To illustrate this use of qualitative methods, examples from real software engineering studies are used throughout the presentation.
> Short bio:
Dr. Seaman is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research generally
falls under the umbrella of empirical studies of software engineering,
with particular emphases on maintenance, organizational structure,
communication, measurement, COTS-based development, and qualitative
research methods. Dr. Seaman is also a Research Fellow at the
Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland, where
she participates in research on experience management in software
engineering organizations and software metrics. Currently, during the
2012-13 academic year, she is spending a sabbatical as a visiting
researcher in Brazil, based at the Center for Informatics at the Federal
University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, where she is conducting
research in the management of software technical debt. She holds a PhD
in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, a MS
in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and a BA in
Computer Science and Mathematics from the College of Wooster (Ohio).
She has worked in the software industry as a software engineer and
consultant, and has conducted most of her research in industrial and
governmental settings (e.g. IBM Canada Ltd., NASA, Xerox).