The paper entitled "Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering" by Carolyn Seaman was published in TSE in 1999. It has been chosen as one of the most influential papers from the third decade of TSE's 50 years history. In this retrospective, the authors discuss the evolution of the use of qualitative methods in software engineering research, the impact it's had on research and practice, and reflections on what is coming and deserves attention.

翻译：Carolyn Seaman 于1999年在TSE上发表的论文《软件工程实证研究中的定性方法》，被选为TSE五十年历史中第三个十年里最具影响力的论文之一。在这篇回顾性文章中，作者们探讨了定性方法在软件工程研究中的应用演变、其对研究与实践产生的影响，并对未来发展趋势及值得关注的议题进行了反思。