Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research

Understand

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 Review Quality Initiative generated empirical standards for research methods commonly used in software engineering.
• These living documents, which should be continuously revised to reflect evolving consensus around research best practices, will improve research quality and make peer review more effective, reliable, transparent and fair.