Open Coding Tool: A Collaborative Coding Tool for Qualitative Data Analysis

• Maurício dos Santos Escobar UNIPAMPA
• Alex Severo Chervenski UNIPAMPA
• Andrea Sabedra Bordin UNIPAMPA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/eres.2020.13728

Abstract

In software engineering research problems have been studied from a qualitative perspective. Several studies adopt qualitative text-based methods, which have a procedure called coding, through which data are broken down to produce new knowledge. As it is an analytical task, it requires people and execution time. There are some software to perform this procedure. However, most are not free and do not allow coding to be performed by a group of people. This article presents a collaborative encoding tool for textual data. In a case study, the use of the tool significantly reduced the coding time, without prejudice to the quality of the generated codes.

Keywords: collaborative coding, qualitative data research, qualitative data analysis software

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