Bring Grey Literature into Software Research: Simple MLR Guidelines
Many software studies only read journal papers, but real ideas also live in blogs, reports and talks.
A Multivocal Literature Review mixes those voices with formal studies so we see both research and what people actually do.
This kind of review looks wider and it finds trends that papers sometimes miss, so teams and managers learn faster, and researchers get clearer questions.
The new guide explains how to plan, search, select and write up these mixed reviews in plain steps.
It builds on tried rules from other reviews, checks lessons from medicine and from actual projects, and gives practical tips people can follow.
The steps help find useful stuff, judge what matters, and tell the story so others can use it.
If you care about real-world software work, this approach brings more voices to the table and makes findings more useful for both practice and research in software engineering.
Try it, it's simple and it works, even when sources are messy.
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Guidelines for including grey literature and conducting multivocal literaturereviews in software engineering
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