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Background: Blog posts are frequently used by software practitioners to shareinformation about their practice. Blog posts therefore provide a potentialsource of evidence for software engineering (SE) research. The use of blogposts as evidence for research appears contentious amongst some SE researchers.Objective: To better understand the actual and perceived value of blog posts asevidence for SE research, and to develop guidance for SE researchers on the useof blog posts as evidence. Method: We further analyse responses from apreviously conducted attitudinal survey of 44 software engineering researchers.We conduct a heatmap analysis, simple statistical analysis, and a thematicanalysis. Results: We find no clear consensus from respondents on researchers'attitudes to the credibility of blog posts, or on a standard set of criteria toevaluate blog-post credibility. We show that some of the responses to thesurvey exhibit characteristics similar to the content of blog posts, e.g.,asserting prior beliefs as claims, with no citations and little supportingrationale. We illustrate our insights with ~60 qualitative examples from thesurvey ~40% of the total responses. We complement our quantitative andqualitative analyses with preliminary checklists to guide SE researchers.Conclusion: Blog posts are relevant to research because they are written bysoftware practitioners describing their practice and experience. But evaluatingthe credibility of blog posts, so as to select the higher-quality content,remains an ongoing challenge. The quantitative and qualitative results, withthe proposed checklists, are intended to stimulate reflection and action in theresearch community on the role of blog posts as evidence in softwareengineering research. Finally, our findings on researchers' attitudes to blogposts also provide more general insights into researchers' values for SEresearch.

Practitioner-generated blog posts as evidence for software engineering research: attitudinal survey and preliminary checklist