Online Package for the manuscript "Continuous Integration and Delivery for Cyber-Physical systems: A Grounded-Theory"

This package contains the material of the (grounded theory) study related to the paper

"Continuous Integration and Delivery for Cyber-Physical systems: A Grounded-Theory"

The content of the various files and directories is detailed in the following.

InterviewStructure.pdf: complete interview structure (the paper reports an overview in Table 1)

open_coding/: this directory contains details from the open coding procedure. In particular:
 - AllCodesUsedWhileCodingAndMapping.csv contains the list of all codes generated during the open coding, with a symbol near each one (first column) then used to compute the inter-rater agreement
 - first_round.csv, second_round.csv, third_round.csv, fourth_round.csv: files used to compute the inter_rater agreement

CodesContributingToMindMap.csv: final set of codes, that contributed to the taxonomy (see below)

FinalCodingTraceability.csv: this file describes how the final set of codes is traced onto the ten interviews. Note that, at this stage, the transcripts have been redacted for confidentiality purposes.

MindMap_Complete.pdf: complete taxonomy of codes, in the form of a mind map. The one reported in the paper (Figure 2) cuts leaves, unless (as for benefits, for example) they are necessary to properly describe and understand the category. Also, note that the complete mind map separates the benefits into "actual" and "expected" (based on what was collected from the interviews) whereas the summary mindmap shown in the paper (Figure 2) does not make this distinction.

6C_Diagrams/ : This directory contains the detailed 6C diagrams (i.e., each box related to a "C" contains the list of codes pertaining to it) for the three dimensions investigated in the paper and addressed in RQ1, RQ2, and RQ3.