Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-164

  Runeson, Per ^a   Höst, Martin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Case study; Checklists; Guidelines; Research methodology

Indexed keywords

HANDBOOKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TERMINOLOGY;

CASE STUDY; CASE STUDY RESEARCHES; CHECKLISTS; GUIDELINES; RECOMMENDED PRACTICES; RESEARCH DOMAINS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCHES;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 61849169018     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9102-8     Document Type: Article

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