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July 6, Sunday
12:00 – 14:00

Abstract: This talk describes grounded analysis (GA) as a method to discover grounded theories (GTs) to be subjected to later empirical validation. It shows that a good instance of Requirements Engineering (RE) is an instance of GA for the purpose of discovering the artifacts that RE produces. Therefore, these artifacts are also GTs.

Work with Michael W. Godfrey, Ric Holt, Cory J. Kapser, and Isabel Ramos

Bio: Daniel M. Berry got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University in 1974. He was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA from 1972 until 1987. He was in the Computer Science Faculty at the Technion, Israel from 1987 until 1999. From 1990 until 1994, he worked for half of each year at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, where he was part of a group that built CMU's Master of Software Engineering program. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he visited the Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 1999, Berry moved to what is now the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Berry's current research interests are software engineering in general, and requirements engineering and electronic publishing in the specific.