Abstract
This report records and discusses the Third Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3). The report includes a description of the keynote presentation of the workshop, which served as an overview of sustainable scientific software. It also summarizes a set of lightning talks in which speakers highlighted to-the-point lessons and challenges pertaining to sustaining scientific software. The final and main contribution of the report is a summary of the discussions, future steps, and future organization for a set of self-organized working groups on topics including developing pathways to funding scientific software; constructing useful common metrics for crediting software stakeholders; identifying principles for sustainable software engineering design; reaching out to research software organizations around the world; and building communities for software sustainability. For each group, we include a point of contact and a landing page that can be used by those who want to join that group's future activities. The main challenge left by the workshop is to see if the groups will execute these activities that they have scheduled, and how the WSSSPE community can encourage this to happen.
Highlights
5.2.2 Discussion It is hard for an individual PI in a university or college to support dedicated research software engineering resources, as the need and funding for these activities are intermittent within a research cycle
5.2.3 Plans The first step in moving this strategy forward is to gather a list of groups that selfidentify as research software engineering groups, and to reach out to other organizations to see if there may be a widespread community of RSEs who do not identify themselves as such at this time
The group examined the principles and took a retrospective analysis of what the developers did in practice against how the principles could have made a difference, and asked, what do the principles mean for computational scientific and engineering software, and how do the principles relate to non-functional requirements? It appeared that the sustainable software engineering principles should be mapped to two core quality attributes that underpin technically sustainable software: extensibility, the software’s ability to be extended and the effort level required to implement the extension; and maintainability: the effort required to locate and fix an error in operational software
Summary
The Third Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: events in the WSSSPE series are WSSSPE12 [1, 2], held in Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3) was held on 28–29 conjunction with SC13; WSSSPE1.13, a focused workshop. 5.2.2 Discussion It is hard for an individual PI in a university or college to support dedicated research software engineering resources, as the need and funding for these activities are intermittent within a research cycle To sustain this capacity, it is necessary to aggregate this work across multiple research groups. 5.2.3 Plans The first step in moving this strategy forward is to gather a list of groups that selfidentify as research software engineering groups, and to reach out to other organizations to see if there may be a widespread community of RSEs who do not identify themselves as such at this time This working group will collect information about the organizational models under which these groups function, and how they are funded. To add another group to the list, please make a pull request as requested on either of these pages
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