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An experiential report on the limitations of experimentation as a means of empirically investigating software practitioners.

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2007
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This paper outlines the needs for careful empirical-design choices during the study of software practitioners. It does this by presenting a documented, but unpublished, in-vivo, empirical, group study. The study was initially conceived as an experiment but was subsequently overwhelmed by human and other factors. As a consequence, only more observational comments could be derived from the study. In this paper, the study is analyzed and discussed, as a means of illustrating the conflict that often exists between in-vivo empirical studies and the experimental paradigm.
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peer-reviewed
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PPIG;06/2007
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Lero - The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software
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software engineering, software practitioners
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https://researchrepository.ul.ie/handle/10344/2076
 https://doi.org/10.34961/9681
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Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Sustainable Development Goals
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Meetings and Proceedings
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