3.2 Step 2: Questionnaire Survey Design and Execution
In software engineering, the empirical approaches that are used most
frequently are case studies, questionnaire surveys, and experimental
analyses [28]. To obtain industry
practitioners’ opinions on SLR findings, this study used Google Docs to
create an online questionnaire [27],
identifying security risks and associated practices to mitigate these
risks. Collecting data directly from industry experts in different parts
of the world is hard. Therefore, we employed a non-methodical approach
to data collection through a web-based questionnaire survey. Other
software engineering researchers used the same data collection strategy
[29-33]. Methods used in the
questionnaire survey were as follows: