--- abstract: 'The popularity of empirical methods in software engineering research is on the rise. Surveys, experiments, metrics, case studies, and field studies are examples of empirical methods used to investigate both software engineering processes and products. The increased application of such methods has also brought about an increase in discussions about adapting these methods to the particularities of software engineering. In contrast, the ethical issues raised by empirical methods have received little attention in the software engineering literature. In this chapter, we introduce four ethics principles of primary importance for conducting ethical research. We additionally discuss and provide examples of applying these principles in the context of ethics review. ' altloc: [] chapter: A Pra commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - norm.vinson@acm.org - janice.singer@gmail.com creators_name: - family: Vinson given: Norman G. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Singer given: Janice A. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2008 date_type: published datestamp: 2009-12-19 12:21:13 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/67/40 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: - 1 - 2 - 3 editors_name: - family: Shull given: Forrest honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Sjøberg given: Dag honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Singer given: Janice A. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6740 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6740/1/vinson_2008.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Research ethics, software engineering, human subjects research' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:34 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 229-256 pubdom: FALSE publication: Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering publisher: Springer refereed: TRUE referencetext: "ACM Executive Council. 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