@inproceedings{36d7952bafd64283b388e6fdd0186fbd,
title = "Case studies in industry: What we have learnt",
abstract = "Case study research has become an important research methodology for exploring phenomena in their natural contexts. Case studies have earned a distinct role in the empirical analysis of software engineering phenomena which are difficult to capture in isolation. Such phenomena often appear in the context of methods and development processes for which it is difficult to run large, controlled experiments as they usually have to reduce the scale in several respects and, hence, are detached from the reality of industrial software development. The other side of the medal is that the realistic socio-economic environments where we conduct case studies-with real-life cases and realistic conditions-also pose a plethora of practical challenges to planning and conducting case studies. In this experience report, we discuss such practical challenges and the lessons we learnt in conducting case studies in industry. Our goal is to help especially inexperienced researchers facing their first case studies in industry by increasing their awareness for typical obstacles they might face and practical ways to deal with those obstacles.",
keywords = "case study research, experience report, lessons learnt",
author = "Fern{\'a}ndez, {Daniel M{\'e}ndez} and Stefan Wagner",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 4th International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry, CESI 2016 - 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2016 ; Conference date: 17-05-2016",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1145/2896839.2896844",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "25--31",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 4th International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry, CESI 2016",
}