Research protocol for a case study of crowdsourcing software development

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2014-01
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Stol, Klaas-Jan
Fitzgerald, Brian
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University of Limerick
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Crowdsourcing is an emerging topic within software engineering research. This report presents the protocol for our case study of crowdsourcing at a multi-national company. The findings of the case study are presented in a paper in the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (2014) (see ref. [37]). This protocol presents additional details that provide more insight regarding the background, design and execution of our study. The research design can also be used for replicating the case study so as to be able to more easily compare different case studies.
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Crowdsourcing software development , Case study , Protocol , Empirical study , Epistemology , Philosophical stance , Research tradition , Software engineering
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Stol, K.-J. and Fitzgerald, B. (2014) Research Protocol for a Case Study of Crowdsourcing Software Development, Lero Technical Report Lero-TR-2014-03, Working Paper, (7 pp), Limerick: University of Limerick.
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© 2014 Klaas-Jan Stol and Brian Fitzgerald