This repository contains the supplementary material of the paper A Thematic Synthesis on Empathy in Software Engineering based on the Practitioners' Perspective published in the Research Track of the XXXVII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2023). To download the paper, access the following link.

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 was collected and stored in the repository to preserve the evidence and ensure the study’s replicability.

The repository contains the following material:

1. In the images folder, you will find all the images used in our paper:

• empathy-framework 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.

• 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).

2. In the data folder, you will find all the spreadsheets with data generated in the extraction process.

• all_codes.ods and all_codes.xls 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.

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

• 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.

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