DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15508756
title: Research Artifacts of Survey‑Based Insights into the Replication Crisis and the 3R in Software Engineering

description: Research Artifacts

The archived artifact is also publicly available via GitHub.

 

📋 Overview

This repository contains the dataset, scripts, and documentation for the paper Survey‑Based Insights into the Replication Crisis and the 3R in Software Engineering.

 

📂 Repository Structure

> 💡 You can download all related content in the file SurveyRepository.zip.

SurveyRepository/
├── data/
│   └── material/
│   └── scripts/
│   └── survey-data/
├── LICENSE
├── LICENSE-MIT
├── Paper.pdf
├── README.md

📂 data/

Contains survey responses, processed datasets, and supporting material used in the study.

📂 data/material/

Includes the materials used to conduct the study, such as the survey questionnaire and the inclusion/exclusion criteria for selecting papers from which participant emails were extracted.

📂 data/scripts/

Contains R scripts used to generate the plots presented in the paper.

📂 data/survey-data/

Provides raw and labeled data organized by survey question.

📄 Paper.pdf

The full paper, related to this artifact, describing the study's methodology, analysis, and findings.

📄 LICENSE / LICENSE-MIT

Defines the licensing terms for using the content and code in this repository.

📄 README.md

This file — includes an overview, usage guide, and citation instructions.

 

💾 Storage Requirements

The total size of this repository is under 5 MB. No special storage requirements are necessary.

 

🛠 How to Run the Scripts

⚙️ Requirements

To run the scripts, you need:

- R installed on your machine.

- RStudio (optional, but recommended).

⏱ System Requirements

No specific hardware requirements are needed to execute the scripts.

🛠 Steps to Run

1. Download and install R.2. Download and install RStudio.3. Download an R script from the scripts folder.4. Open an R script.  - Open one script at a time.6. Run the script using:  - Mac: Cmd + Shift + Enter  - Windows/Linux: Ctrl + Shift + Enter5. Open the output image file generated by R.  - It will be saved in the same folder as the script, using the same filename.

> 💡 Each script generates one plot used in the paper.

 

📄 Citation

📝 Citing the Paper

If you use the data or findings from this repository, please cite the paper:

@inproceedings{AzevedoEtAl2025,  author      = {Ivanildo Azevedo and                      Ana Paula Vasconcelos and                      Eudis Teixeira and                     Sergio Soares},  title           = {Survey-Based Insights into the Replication Crisis and the 3R in Software Engineering},  booktitle   = {Proceedings of the 39th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES '25)},  location    = {Recife/PE},  year          = {2025},  issn           = {2833-0633},  publisher  = {SBC},  address    = {Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil}}

📦 Citing the Artifact

If you wish to cite only the archived artifact at Zenodo:

@misc{AzevedoEtAl2025,  author       = {Ivanildo Azevedo and                        Ana Paula Vasconcelos and                        Eudis Teixeira and                       Sergio Soares},  title           = {Research Artifacts of Survey‑Based Insights into the Replication                        Crisis and the 3R in Software Engineering},  year          = {2025},  publisher  = {Zenodo},  doi            = {10.5281/zenodo.17064310},  url             = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17064310}}

 

🛡️ Ethical and Legal Considerations

All data used in this study were collected anonymously and with informed consent from participants. No personally identifiable information is included. The study complies with institutional ethical guidelines and was conducted solely for academic research purposes.

 

📜 License

- R scripts are licensed under the MIT License.- Research data and artifacts are licensed under the CC BY 4.0 License.