Authors:
Elziane Monteiro Soares
and
Sandro Ronaldo Bezerra Oliveira
Affiliation:
Graduate Program in Computer Sciense, Institute of Exact and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará and Brazil
Keyword(s):
Experimental Software Engineering, Grounded Theory, Open Coding, Customer and Market, MOSE.
Abstract:
The use of methods inserted in the context of Experimental Software Engineering as the experimental study, case studies, opinion surveys and controlled experiments, has intensified in recent years. Considering this context, this study aims to present the application of the Open Coding proposal in the experimental method of Grounded Theory (GT), in order to contribute to the definition of the profile of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies in the State of Pará from Brazil, since the results generated in this work favor the development of the next steps of the GT method. The context explored happened under the perpescence of the MOSE model, more specifically in the Customer and Market (CM) dimension, once the investigation was based on information related to the concepts present in this dimension, aiming to know the form that occurs the development of the CM competence in the daily life of each company participating in this research.