Teaching and Learning Ethnography for Software Engineering Contexts

Autor: Dittrich, Yvonne, Sharp, Helen, de Souza, Cleidson
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Ethnography has become one of the established methods for empirical research on software engineering. Although there is a wide variety of introductory books available, there has been no material targeting software engineering students particularly, until now. In this chapter we provide an introduction to teaching and learning ethnography for faculty teaching ethnography to software engineering graduate students and for the students themselves of such courses. The contents of the chapter focuses on what we think is the core basic knowledge for newbies to ethnography as a research method. We complement the text with proposals for exercises, tips for teaching, and pitfalls that we and our students have experienced. The chapter is designed to support part of a course on empirical software engineering and provides pointers and literature for further reading.
Comment: 38 pages, to be published in: Daniel Mendez, Paris Avgeriou, Marcos Kalinowski, and Nauman bin Ali (eds.) Teaching Empirical Research Methods in Software Engineering, Springer
Databáze: arXiv