Guidelines for Using Mixed and Multi Methods Research in Software Engineering
<|reference_start|>Guidelines for Using Mixed and Multi Methods Research in Software Engineering: Mixed and multi methods research is often used in software engineering, but researchers outside of the social or human sciences often lack experience when using these designs. This paper provides guidelines and advice on how to design mixed and multi method research, and to encourage the intentional, rigourous, and innovative use of mixed methods in software engineering. It also presents key characteristics of core mixed method research designs. Through a number of fictitious but recognizable software engineering research scenarios and personas of prototypical researchers, we showcase how to choose suitable designs and consider the inevitable tradeoffs any design choice leads to. We furnish the paper with recommended best practices and several antipatterns that illustrate what to avoid in mixed and multi method research.<|reference_end|>
@article{storey2024guidelines,
    title={Guidelines for Using Mixed Methods Research in Software Engineering},
    author={Margaret-Anne Storey and Rashina Hoda and Alessandra Maciel Paz Milani
  and Maria Teresa Baldassarre},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.06011},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.06011},
    primaryClass={cs.SE}
}