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Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research
Paul Ralph, Nauman bin Ali, Sebastian Baltes +39
Empirical Standards are natural-language models of a scientific community's expectations for a specific kind of study (e.g. a questionnaire survey). The ACM SIGSOFT Paper and Peer…
Pandemic Programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help
Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes, Gianisa Adisaputri +14
Context. As a novel coronavirus swept the world in early 2020, thousands of software developers began working from home. Many did so on short notice, under difficult and stressful…
Sampling in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines
Sebastian Baltes, Paul Ralph
Representative sampling appears rare in empirical software engineering research. Not all studies need representative samples, but a general lack of representative sampling undermin…