On Monday May 18th we held a very successful workshop on qualitative research methods in software engineering at the University of British Columbia. A big thanks to all the participants and a special thanks to:
Dr Wendy Hall of the School of Nursing at UBC who provided a brilliant keynote presentation. Today nursing research makes extensive use of qualitative methods to understand nursing problems, but this was not the case 30 years ago.
Our student volunteers, Marco Gonzales, Sam Chau and Paul Ralph for organizing the logistics for this workshop and taking notes.
While we have lofty ambitions of creating a vibrant qualitative research community in software engineering we needed to set some realistic achievable goals. First among these is creating a resource site to support those interested in qualitative research in software engineering. There are other groups who share this interest (e.g. the AIS GT special interested group). We want our group to be a portal that we can use to bring everyone together, not to establish yet another interest group (see Carolyn Seaman's position paper).
We are using the google group that we had for organizing the workshop as a support site. You can visit the group at groups.google.ca/group/qualresse?hl=en
Thanks again for all the info! Do you know where I should be able to find qualitative research software to help me better my results for testing?
ReplyDeleteHow does qualitative research software improve testing results for small times businesses? I would love to get the software but only if it would benefit my business.
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