While being an important and often used research method, survey research has been less often discussed on a methodological level in empirical software engineering than other types of research. This chapter compiles a set of important and challenging issues in survey research based on experiences with several large-scale international surveys. The chapter covers theory building, sampling, invitation and follow-up, statistical as well as qualitative analysis of survey data and the usage of psychometrics in software engineering surveys.
@article{arxiv.1908.05899,
title = {Challenges in Survey Research},
author = {Stefan Wagner and Daniel Méndez Fernández and Michael Felderer and Daniel Graziotin and Marcos Kalinowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05899},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Accepted version of chapter in the upcoming book on Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering. Update includes revision of typos and additional figures. Last update includes fixing two small issues and typos