Open AccessGuidelines for collaborative development of sustainable data treatment software
Author(s) -
Joachim Wuttke,
Stephen P. Cottrell,
Miguel Ángel Conde González,
Anders Kaestner,
Anders J. Markvardsen,
Thomas Holm Rod,
Piotr B. Rozyczko,
G. Vardanyan
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of neutron research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1029-2179
pISSN - 1023-8166
DOI - 10.3233/jnr-220002
Subject(s) - software , software development , work (physics) , software peer review , sustainability , software review , product (mathematics) , engineering management , engineering , software engineering , computer science , knowledge management , software construction , mechanical engineering , ecology , geometry , mathematics , biology , programming language
Software development for data reduction and analysis at large research facilities is increasingly professionalized, and internationally coordinated. To foster software quality and sustainability, and to facilitate collaboration, representatives from software groups of European neutron and muon facilities have agreed on a set of guidelines for development practices, infrastructure, and functional and non-functional product properties. These guidelines have been derived from actual practices in software projects from the EU funded consortium ‘Science and Innovation with Neutrons in Europe in 2020’ (SINE2020), and have been enriched through extensive literature review. Besides guiding the work of the professional software engineers in our computing groups, we hope to influence scientists who are willing to contribute their own data treatment software to our community. Moreover, this work may also provide inspiration to scientific software development beyond the neutron and muon field.