A Thematic Synthesis on Empathy in Software Engineering based on the Practitioners' Perspective - Supplementary Material

This repository contains the supplementary material of the paper "A Thematic Synthesis on Empathy in Software Engineering based on the Practitioners' Perspective" 
(DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3613372.3613407) accepted at the Research Track of the 
XXXVII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2023).

The artifacts are a result of a thematic synthesis of grey literature 
performed to investigate the meaning, importance, practices, and effects of empathy 
from the perspective of software practitioners. 
The analysis was based on web articles from DEV, an online community used by software developers. 
The data were collected and stored in the repository to preserve the evidence and ensure the study’s replicability.
 
The repository contains the following material:

1- <all codes.ods> and <all codes.xlsx>
All codes generated in the data extraction process, considering research questions RQ1-RQ5:
The two files have the same content in different formats - ODS and XLSX.

2 - <dataset.csv> 
The list of web articles collected from the DEV in CSV format with all inclusion and 
exclusion information, plus demographic data.

3 - <empathy-framework.jpg>
Figure 3 of the paper: A conceptual map of the meaning (boxes in orange) and 
the value (boxes in blue) of empathy according to the software practitioners

4 - <empathy-model.jpg> 
Figure 4 of the paper: A conceptual framework for communication and collaboration (A), 
management and leadership (B), coding (C), and code review (D).

5 - <extraction.ods> and <extraction.xlsx>. The data extracted from the web articles, 
including codes and quotes for each research question. 
The two files have the same content in different formats - ODS and XLSX.