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Conducting an action research study improves practices at our industrial partners. The improvement can range from elevating the competence of the action team to changing the way in which the partner company or organization develops software. The ideal outcome, however, is the change in the way of working or in the product. While improving the industrial practice, action research also contributes to developing and evaluating theories in software engineering. Therefore, it is important that we report our action research studies in a rigorous way, so that others can learn from our experiences. In this chapter, we describe how to report studies, both in the standard format of research papers to focus on the impact of the actions and as a storytelling to focus on the actions taken alongside of the impact.
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Staron, M. (2020). Reporting Action Research Studies. In: Action Research in Software Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32610-4_11
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