This site provides the data used in the study “Developers' Viewpoints on Avoiding Bug-introducing Changes” .

Section 3.1 and 3.2 - Preliminary Assumptions and Q-Set

This Page (Assumptions) present the entire list of assumptions collected from our study.

Section 3.5 - Participant's responses through Q-Sorting process

This Page (Responses) provides the dataset of our study containing the response using our online web Tool.

Section 3.5 - Q Sorting Process: Invitation Letter

This Page (Letter) provides the invitation letter used to invite developers to our study.

Section 3.5 - Q Sorting Process: Questionnaire

This Page (Questionnaire) present the characterization questionnaire used in our study.

Section 3.6 - Conducting the Viewpoint Analysis: Initial Matrix

This Page (Initial Data Matrix) present a two-dimensional matrix obtained from the 41 participants and assumptions.

Section 3.6 - Conducting the Viewpoint Analysis: Correlation Matrix

This Page (Correlation Matrix) shown a correlation matrix between participants (q-sorts) and assumptions.

Section 3.6 - Conducting the Viewpoint Analysis: Initial Viewpoints and Viewpoints Rotation

This Page (Viewpoint Analysis) shown the entire viewpoint analysis.

Section 4.2 - Results and Discussions: Participant's Comments (RQ2)

This Page (Participant's Comments) shown the comments of all participants of our experiment using the Q-Methodology.

Glossary - Terminologies and Statistical Tests

This Page (Glossary) shown the description about the terminologies and statistical tests used in our study.