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Query: Applying Inter-rater Reliability and Agreement in Grounded Theory
  Studies in Software Engineering   In recent years, the qualitative research on empirical software engineering
that applies Grounded Theory is increasing. Grounded Theory (GT) is a technique
for developing theory inductively e iteratively from qualitative data based on
theoretical sampling, coding, constant comparison, memoing, and saturation, as
main characteristics. Large or controversial GT studies may involve multiple
researchers in collaborative coding, which requires a kind of rigor and
consensus that an individual coder does not. Although many qualitative
researchers reject quantitative measures in favor of other qualitative
criteria, many others are committed to measuring consensus through Inter-Rater
Reliability (IRR) and/or Inter-Rater Agreement (IRA) techniques to develop a
shared understanding of the phenomenon being studied. However, there are no
specific guidelines about how and when to apply IRR/IRA during the iterative
process of GT, so researchers have been using ad hoc methods for years. This
paper presents a process for systematically applying IRR/IRA in GT studies that
meets the iterative nature of this qualitative research method, which is
supported by a previous systematic literature review on applying IRR/RA in GT
studies in software engineering. This process allows researchers to
incrementally generate a theory while ensuring consensus on the constructs that
support it and, thus, improving the rigor of qualitative research. This
formalization helps researchers to apply IRR/IRA to GT studies when various
raters are involved in coding. Measuring consensus among raters promotes
communicability, transparency, reflexivity, replicability, and trustworthiness
of the research.

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