Recommended steps for thematic synthesis in software engineering

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 275-284

  Cruzes, Daniela S ^a   Dybå, Tore ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Evidence based and empirical software engineering; Research synthesis; Secondary research; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE-BASED AND EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH SYNTHESIS; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY; SECONDARY RESEARCHES; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84858743104     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/esem.2011.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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