Qualitative research in software engineering
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For the Special issue on Qualitative Software Engineering Research
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Empirical Software Engineering
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1382-3256,1573-7616
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9163-y