ACM SIGSOFT Empirical Standards.
Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes, Domenico Bianculli, Yvonne Dittrich, Michael Felderer, ROBERT H. FELDT, Antonio Filieri, Carlo A. Furia, Daniel Graziotin, Pinjia He, Rashina Hoda, Natália Juristo, Barbara Ann Kitchenham, Romain Robbes, Daniel Méndez, Jefferson Seide Molléri, Diomidis D. Spinellis, Miroslaw Staron, Klaas-Jan Stol, Damian A. Tamburri · Spiral (Imperial College London) · 2020
Empirical Standards are brief public document that communicate 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 common research methods in software engineering. These living documents, which should be continuously revised to reflect evolving consensus around research best practices, can be used to make peer review more transparent, structured, harmonious and fair.