Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)

University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 6 September 2017

Edited by

Neil Chue Hong¹, Stephan Druskat², Robert Haines³, Caroline Jay³, Daniel S. Katz⁴, Shoaib Sufi<sup>5

1</sup>Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
²Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
³University of Manchester, UK
⁴University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
⁵Software Sustainability Institute, University of Manchester, UK

Contents

Track 1: "The state of the art in sustainable research software"

Papers

- Carina Haupt and Tobias Schlauch:
The Software Engineering Community at DLR – How we got where we are.

- Udit Nangia and Daniel S. Katz:
Surveying the U.S. National Postdoctoral Association Regarding Software Use and Training in Research.

- Francisco Queiroz, Raniere Silva, Jonah Miller, Sandor Brockhauser and Hans Fangohr:
Good Usability Practices in Scientific Software Development.

Lightning Talks

- Sarah Alhozaimy, Robert Haines and Caroline Jay:
Forking as a Tool for Software Sustainability—An Empirical Study.

- Robin Dasler:
CERN Analysis Preservation - Contextualising analyses through data and software preservation.

- Raniere Silva:
Research Software in Brazil.

- Alexander Struck:
How red tape and other obstacles are holding us back.

- Andrew Washbrook:
Continuous software quality analysis for the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

Track 2: "Towards a sustainable future for research software"

Papers

- Douglas Mulholland, Paulo Alencar and Don Cowan:
The Future of Metadata‐Oriented Testing of Research Software: Automated Generation of Test Regimes and Other Benefits.

Lightning Talks

- Stephan Druskat:
Should CITATION files be standardized?

- Jason Maassen, Niels Drost, Willem Robert van Hage and Rob van Nieuwpoort:
Software Development Best Practices at the Netherlands eScience Center.