Software Engineering Practices in Early Stages of Icelandic Software Startups - Artifacts and work documents

Supplementary material for thesis:

Software Engineering Practices in Early Stages of Icelandic Software Startups,
M.Sc. thesis in Software Engineering,
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Iceland.

Artifacts generated while performing interviews and grounded theory analysis.

Interview guide (PDF documents): Version 1.2 received from Helgi Þorbergsson, University of Iceland and Rory V. O'Connor, Dublin City University designed for prior unfinished research. Changed as necessary while interviewing process took place to limit extraneous questions and improve discussion flow.

Coded transcripts (Microsoft Word documents): A transcript for each interview used in research. Also includes open codes as comments, with memos as necessary, linked to select text from the transcripts. The transcripts have been anonymized.

Open, axial, and selective codes Microsoft Excel documents: open_codes.xlsx contains open code information extracted from coded transcript Microsoft Word documents and assigns ids to open codes. axial_codes.xlsx describes how open codes are merged to form axial codes. selective_codes.xlsx describes how selective codes are formed by merging axial codes.

Axial and selective coding mind map HTML files: Work documents generated to facilitate grounded theory analysis. There may exist discrepancies to final list of codes in Microsoft Excel documents. These files were not updated further once analysis was concluded.

本学位论文补充资料：
《冰岛软件初创企业早期阶段的软件工程实践》，
冰岛大学工业工程、机械工程与计算机科学学院软件工程方向理学硕士学位论文。

本数据集包含访谈实施与扎根理论（Grounded Theory）分析过程中产出的相关研究素材。

访谈指南（PDF文档）：版本1.2由冰岛大学Helgi Þorbergsson与都柏林城市大学Rory V. O'Connor为此前未完成的研究设计，访谈开展过程中根据实际需求进行了调整，以删减无关问题、优化讨论流程。

编码访谈转录文本（Microsoft Word文档）：本研究使用的每一则访谈的转录文本，其中包含以批注形式呈现的开放编码（open codes），必要时附加研究备忘录，并与转录文本中的对应文本建立关联。所有转录文本均已完成匿名化处理。

开放编码、主轴编码（axial codes）与选择编码（selective codes）相关Microsoft Excel文档：open_codes.xlsx包含从编码转录文本（Microsoft Word文档）中提取的开放编码信息，并为每个开放编码分配唯一标识符；axial_codes.xlsx阐述了开放编码如何合并为主轴编码；selective_codes.xlsx阐述了主轴编码如何合并为选择编码。

主轴编码与选择编码思维导图HTML文件：用于辅助扎根理论分析的工作文档，与Microsoft Excel文档中的最终编码列表可能存在不一致之处。分析工作完成后，此类文件未再进行后续更新。