Thematic Review and Analysis of Grounded Theory Application in Software Engineering

Badreddin, Omar

doi:10.1155/2013/468021

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“…As the name suggests, GT approach provides a means of generating theory that is "grounded" in the data in an exploratory fashion [44]. It has been studied extensively in literature in different contexts [44][45] [46][47] [48]. GT approach allows streamlining and integrating data collection and analysis.…”

Section: Data Analysis Methodsmentioning

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An Effective Verification Strategy for Testing Distributed Automotive Embedded Software Functions: A Case Study

Chunduri

Feldt

Adenmark

2016

Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

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Context. The share and importance of software within automotive vehicles is growing steadily. Most functionalities in modern vehicles, especially safety related functions like advanced emergency braking, are controlled by software. A complex and common phenomenon in today's automotive vehicles is the distribution of such software functions across several Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and consequently across several ECU system software modules. As a result, integration testing of these distributed software functions has been found to be a challenge. The automotive industry neither has infinite resources, nor has the time to carry out exhaustive testing of these functions. On the other hand, the traditional approach of implementing an ad-hoc selection of test scenarios based on the tester's experience, can lead to test gaps and test redundancies. Hence, there is a pressing need within the automotive industry for a feasible and effective verification strategy for testing distributed software functions. Objectives. Firstly, to identify the current approach used to test the distributed automotive embedded software functions in literature and in a case company. Secondly, propose and validate a feasible and effective verification strategy for testing the distributed software functions that would help improve test coverage while reducing test redundancies and test gaps. Methods. To accomplish the objectives, a case study was conducted at Scania CV AB, Södertälje, Sweden. One of the data collection methods was through conducting interviews of different employees involved in the software testing activities. Based on the research objectives, an interview questionnaire with open-ended and close-ended questions has been used. Apart from interviews, data from relevant artifacts in databases and archived documents has been used to achieve data triangulation. Moreover, to further strengthen the validity of the results obtained, adequate literature support has been presented throughout. Towards the end, a verification strategy has been proposed and validated using existing historical data at Scania. Conclusions. The proposed verification strategy to test distributed automotive embedded software functions has given promising results by providing means to identify test gaps and test redundancies. It helps establish an effective and feasible approach to capture function test coverage information that helps enhance the effectiveness of integration testing of the distributed software functions.

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An Effective Verification Strategy for Testing Distributed Automotive Embedded Software Functions: A Case Study

Chunduri

Feldt

Adenmark

2016

Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

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“… This study uses the grounded theory (GT) methodology (Strauss and Corbin, ). GT is a qualitative, inductive research method widely used in different areas, including information technology research (Badreddin, ). In GT, the theory is built from the data.…”

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“…used in different areas, including information technology research (Badreddin, 2013). In GT, the theory is built from the data.…”

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An innovation activity model for Very Small Entities in the software sector: an empirical study

Brun

Sicilia

2016

R & D Management

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Innovation management is a subdiscipline of management that studies the rules that govern the generation, diffusion, adoption of innovation, and relationships between innovation inputs and outputs. A great number of innovative products and services depend on software. In the software industry, many small entities act as subcontractors that develop components that are later integrated into larger industrial systems. However, these small entities do not have the resources needed to support long‐term R&D activities and they also lack innovation management models which makes the planning and execution of innovation management difficult. These same small enterprises face similar challenges in the software development process. However, the ISO/IEC 29110 standard provides small enterprises with a clear path in implementing a systematic software development process. The planning and execution of innovation management activities may also benefit from a similar approach. This article describes an innovation activity model suited to the characteristics of small entities whose main stream of revenue is software development. Using the existing literature, standards, and the practical experience of companies with a successful history of developing innovative software‐based products, this study identifies the activities and practices that lead to the development of innovative products. Interfaces between innovation management activities, software development processes, and work products are also identified.

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“…The state of affairs in attempts to developments of Grounded Theories in the domain of software engineering one can estimate with the use of reviews [19,20]. In the review [19] published in 2013, there are no applications of Grounded Theory to a coherent set of specialized disciplines typically implemented by designers in the development of systems with software.…”

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“…In the review [19] published in 2013, there are no applications of Grounded Theory to a coherent set of specialized disciplines typically implemented by designers in the development of systems with software. Therefore, in the review, all investigated publications were separated into three areas -flexible design, distributed development and the formation of requirements.…”

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Substantially Evolutionary Theorizing in Designing Software-Intensive Systems

Sosnin

2018

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Useful inheritances from scientific experience open perspective ways for increasing the degree of success in designing of systems with software. One such way is a search and build applied theory that takes into account the nature of design and the specificity of software engineering. This paper presents a substantially evolutionary approach to creating the project theories, the application of which leads to positive effects that are traditionally expected from theorizing. Any implementation of the approach is based on a reflection by designers of an operational space of designing onto a semantic memory of a question-answer type. One of the results of such reflection is a system of question-answer nets, the nodes of which register facts of interactions of designers with accessible experience. A set of such facts is used by designers for creating and using the theory that belongs to the new subclass of Grounded Theories. This sub-class is oriented on organizationally behavioral features of a project's work based on design thinking, automated mental imagination, and thought experimenting that facilitate increasing the degree of controlled intellectualization in the design process and, correspondingly, increasing the degree of success in the development of software-intensive systems.

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Thematic Review and Analysis of Grounded Theory Application in Software Engineering

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

An Effective Verification Strategy for Testing Distributed Automotive Embedded Software Functions: A Case Study

An Effective Verification Strategy for Testing Distributed Automotive Embedded Software Functions: A Case Study

An innovation activity model for Very Small Entities in the software sector: an empirical study

Substantially Evolutionary Theorizing in Designing Software-Intensive Systems

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