Informed consent and participant recruitment in studies of software practice

Sharp, Helen; Lopez, Tamara and Wermelinger, Michel (2022). Informed consent and participant recruitment in studies of software practice. In: 1st International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering (RoPES’22), 17 May 2022, Virtual.

URL: https://ropes-workshops.github.io/ropes22/

Abstract

All empirical software engineering studies require informed consent from participants. In this paper we explore issues we have faced around the need for informed consent for qualitative studies in organisational settings, and the effect they have on participant recruitment and engagement. These issues are: the “chicken and egg” of study design and data collection; the nature of data being collected; the difference between requirements gathering and research data collection; benefits and coercion; and participant reluctance and uncertainty.

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• 82494
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
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• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  STRIDE: Socio-Technical Resilience In software DEvelopment	EP/T017465/1	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

• Keywords
• ualitative studies; workplace studies; ethics
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
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• Software Engineering and Design (SEAD)
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• Helen Sharp