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.
翻译:经验标准是科学界期望开展特定研究的自然语言模型(如问卷调查),ACM SIGSOFT 文件和同行审议质量倡议为软件工程中常用的研究方法制定了经验标准,这些活文件应不断修订,以反映围绕研究最佳做法不断形成的共识,将提高研究质量,使同行审议更加有效、可靠、透明和公平。