Research protocol for a case study of crowdsourcing software development

Stol, Klaas-Jan; Fitzgerald, Brian

Research protocol for a case study of crowdsourcing software development

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Date

2014-01

Authors

Stol, Klaas-Jan

Fitzgerald, Brian

Publisher

University of Limerick

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Crowdsourcing software development , Case study , Protocol , Empirical study , Epistemology , Philosophical stance , Research tradition , Software engineering

Citation

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.