Retrieving and mining practitioners’ self-reports of their professional experience of software practice could provide valuable evidence for research. The authors are, however, unaware of any existing reviews of research conducted in this area. The authors reviewed and classified previous research, and identified insights into the challenges research confronts when retrieving and mining practitioners’ self-reports of their experience of software practice. They conducted an exploratory review to identify and classify 42 studies. They analysed a selection of those studies for insights on challenges to mining professional experience. They identified only one directly relevant study. Even then this study concerns the software professional's emotional experiences rather than the professional's reporting of behaviour and events occurring during software practice. They discussed the challenges concerning: the prevalence of professional experience; definitions, models and theories; the sparseness of data; units of discourse analysis; annotator agreement; evaluation of the performance of algorithms; and the lack of replications. No directly relevant prior research appears to have been conducted in this area. They discussed the value of reporting negative results in secondary studies. There are a range of research opportunities but also considerable challenges. They formulated a set of guiding questions for further research in this area.

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从灰色文献中检索和挖掘软件实践的专业经验：探索性回顾

检索和挖掘从业人员关于其软件实践专业经验的自我报告可以为研究提供有价值的证据。但是，作者没有意识到在该领域进行的任何现有的研究评论。作者对以前的研究进行了回顾和分类，并确定了对研究人员在检索和挖掘从业人员关于其软件实践经验的自我报告时所面临的挑战的见识。他们进行了探索性审查，以鉴定和分类42项研究。他们分析了其中的一些研究，以了解采矿专业经验所面临的挑战。他们只鉴定了一项直接相关的研究。即使如此，这项研究仍关注软件专业人员的情感体验，而不是软件专业人员的情感体验。报告软件实践期间发生的行为和事件。他们讨论了以下挑战：专业经验的普遍性；定义，模型和理论；数据稀疏；话语分析单位；注释者协议；评估算法性能；和缺乏复制。在这一领域似乎没有进行过直接相关的先前研究。他们讨论了在中学研究中报告阴性结果的价值。研究机会众多，但挑战也很大。他们提出了一系列指导性问题，可供在该领域进一步研究。注释者协议；评估算法性能；和缺乏复制。在这一领域似乎没有进行过直接相关的先前研究。他们讨论了在中学研究中报告阴性结果的价值。研究机会众多，但挑战也很大。他们提出了一系列指导性问题，以供对该领域的进一步研究。注释者协议；评估算法性能；和缺乏复制。在这一领域似乎没有进行过直接相关的先前研究。他们讨论了在中学研究中报告阴性结果的价值。研究机会众多，但挑战也很大。他们提出了一系列指导性问题，以供对该领域的进一步研究。