Um estudo sobre as práticas de testes funcionais de GUI na indústria brasileira de software

How they used Delve

A computer science master's student at Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana in Brazil used Delve to code semi-structured interviews with 20 software testing professionals about GUI functional testing practices, applying open and axial coding from grounded theory together with a second researcher.

“Depois, visando garantir maior qualidade dos dados, com a ajuda de um segundo pesquisador (aluno de mestrado), foi iniciada a codificação na plataforma Delve. Para a realização da análise dos dados, foi utilizada uma abordagem de pesquisa com ênfase em dados qualitativos com o uso de elementos da Teoria Fundamentada em Dados (Grounded Theory) Corbin e Strauss (2008).”

Field

Software engineering; functional GUI testing practices in the Brazilian software industry

Data

Semi-structured interviews with 20 software testing professionals in the Brazilian software industry, transcribed and organised in a spreadsheet, following an online questionnaire answered by 222 testing professionals

Approach

Elements of Corbin and Strauss grounded theory: inductive open coding (in vivo first, descriptive coding when in vivo was not possible) then axial coding to group codes into categories, with two researchers reviewing and comparing their codes for consensus; preceded by an online questionnaire of 222 testing professionals

Data types

Interviews, Open-ended survey responses