The struggle is real! The agony of recruiting participants for empirical software engineering studies
Empirical software engineering researchers are committed to investigating better ways of improving software engineering practice. To do this, gathering data about software professionals’ experiences and perspectives on the researched topic is crucial. However, in the last decade, our experience of recruiting software professionals as potential participants in our studies has met with fluctuating success. Therefore, we had to explore multiple possibilities when recruiting participants. This cost us more effort and time than anticipated. In this paper, we briefly discuss the challenges we faced when recruiting participants for empirical research in software engineering, the solutions we implemented to address these challenges, and a concise list of strategies for garnering the interest of potential participants.
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11:00 - 12:30 | |||
11:00 5mTalk | Diversity in End-User Programming Research and a Critique of "Representativeness" Workshops and Tutorials Advait Sarkar Microsoft Research and University of Cambridge Pre-print | ||
11:05 5mTalk | End-Users vs Software Practitioners: Recruitment Challenges and Strategies in Software Engineering Research Workshops and Tutorials Wei Wang Monash University, Dulaji Hidellaarachchi Monash University, John Grundy Monash University, Hourieh Khalajzadeh Deakin University, Australia, Anuradha Madugalla Deakin University, School of IT, Australia, Humphrey Obie Monash University Pre-print | ||
11:10 5mTalk | Evaluating LLM-Generated Topics from Survey Responses: Identifying Challenges in Recruiting Participants through Crowdsourcing Workshops and Tutorials Reham Al Tamime Qatar Computing Research Institute, Joni Salminen School of Marketing and Communication, University of Vaasa, Soon-Gyo Jung Qatar Computing Research Institute, Bernard Jansen Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Pre-print | ||
11:15 5mTalk | The struggle is real! The agony of recruiting participants for empirical software engineering studies Workshops and Tutorials Kashumi Madampe Monash University, Australia, John Grundy Monash University, Rashina Hoda Monash University, Humphrey Obie Monash University Pre-print | ||
11:20 70mMeeting | Papers Discussion 1 Workshops and Tutorials | ||