Case Study Research in Software Engineering: Guidelines and Examples

Based on their own experiences of in-depth case studies of software projects in international corporations, in this book the authors present detailed practical guidelines on the preparation, conduct, design and reporting of case studies of software engineering.  This is the first software engineering specific book on the case study research method.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–9):
Chapter 2 Background and Definition of Concepts (pages 11–21):
Chapter 3 Design of the Case Study (pages 23–45):
Chapter 4 Data Collection (pages 47–60):
Chapter 5 Data Analysis and Interpretation (pages 61–76):
Chapter 6 Reporting and Dissemination (pages 77–95):
Chapter 7 Scaling up Case Study Research to Real?World Software Practice (pages 97–107):
Chapter 8 Using Case Study Research (pages 109–126):
Chapter 9 Introduction to Case Study Examples (pages 127–132):
Chapter 10 Case Study of Extreme Programming in a Stage–Gate Context (pages 133–147):
Chapter 11 Two Longitudinal Case Studies of Software Project Management (pages 149–161):
Chapter 12 An Iterative Case Study of Quality Monitoring (pages 163–170):
Chapter 13 A Case Study of the Evaluation of Requirements Management Tools (pages 171–182):
Chapter 14 A Large?Scale Case Study of Requirements and Verification Alignment (pages 183–199):