Using Students as Experimental Subjects in Software Engineering Research -- A Review and Discussion of the Evidence — mentioned by rainforest

Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:21:35 GMT

The use of students in SE research is a hot topic, see, for example Fietelson's review: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08409. Practitioners have a problem recruiting subjects. There is often a tradeoff between applying more rigorous experiment design and using convenience sampling (students) versus sacrificing controlled environments (so that professionals would actually join the study). It's easy to condemn work like this but there's no other option. In this case the researchers chose to replicate a study (which often risks similar ire for telling us nothing new) with a commendable level of…

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Using Students as Experimental Subjects in Software Engineering Research -- A Review and Discussion of the Evidence — mentioned by rainforest