Replication Package: Useful Learning Experiences in Brazilian Software Engineering

This replication package supports the qualitative study "Useful Learning Experiences: A Qualitative Study of Corporate Training in Brazilian Software Engineering," which investigates how Brazilian software engineering professionals describe and characterize the learning experiences they perceive as most useful. The dataset comprises 195 open-ended responses collected between September 9 and November 2, 2025, from professionals working in software development, quality assurance, technical leadership, software architecture, DevOps, data engineering, and people/project management. Responses were analyzed using Thematic Analysis following the six-stage procedure of Terry et al. (2017), supported by frequency and lemmatization analysis with IRAMUTEQ and co-occurrence analysis between themes. The analysis produced five themes (continuous technical updating, practical and applied learning, formal academic education, social learning and networking, and leadership development and soft skills) and one emergent observation (self-directed learning and skepticism). The package contains: (i) the anonymized CSV with the open-ended responses and the intermediate artifacts of the six-stage thematic analysis, including initial codes, candidate thematic axes, and final theme assignments; and (ii) the complete questionnaire instrument in its original Brazilian Portuguese version, including the informed consent form, sociodemographic items, 27 Likert-scale items measuring perceived quality of corporate training, and the two open-ended questions, of which only QQ1 is analyzed in the associated paper. The materials are intended to support independent verification of the coding decisions, replication of the co-occurrence analysis, and reuse of the instrument in future studies on corporate training in software engineering. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee under