Ethical Issues in Empirical Software Engineering: The Limits of Policy

摘要: Empirical studies in software engineering can involve a variety of organizations, each with their own set policies and procedures geared at safeguarding the interests responsibilities researchers, students, collaborating company, university, possibly national funding agencies like National Science Foundation Institute Health. Each these organizations have differing goals for participating bring widely different cultures expectations to table. While policies, procedures, contracts, agreements expectations, they by themselves cannot ensure ethical behavior. This position paper describes some common approaches encourage behavior limits enforcing