Replication Package for the Paper: Characteristics and Challenges of Low-Code Development: The Practitioners' Perspective

This is the replication package for the paper: "Characteristics and Challenges of Low-Code Development: The Practitioners’ Perspective". It contains the dataset collected from online developer communities and the data labelling and encoding file of this study. In the meanwhile, we provide a brief description of the files.

1. Dataset folder

includes the posts collected from Stack Overflow and Reddit.

2. Data Labelling & Encoding.mx20

is the results of data labelling and encoding that were analyzed by the MAXQDA tool. We extracted data from the posts, labelled them according to the RQs, and encoded the extracted data using Constant Comparison. The file can be opened by MAXQDA 20 or higher versions, which are available at https://www.maxqda.com/ for download. You may also use the free 14-day trial version of MAXQDA 2020, which is available at https://www.maxqda.com/trial for download.