SURESOFT

Suresoft: Sustainable Research Software Development and Deployment

(Third Party Funds Single)

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Start date: 23. March 2020
End date: 23. March 2023
Acronym: Suresoft
Funding source: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
URL: https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/suresoft

Abstract:

Research software is of fundamental importance for many disciplines to achieve scientific progress. The software is commonly developed by scientists, with a short-term perspective to gain specific results. In most cases, it ends up with instabilities as typically scientists are self-taught developers. As a result, the widespread and long-term usage is inhibited and consequently, the scientific research quality and progress pace are hindered.

SURESOFT project aims to establish a common usable methodology and infrastructure based on the concepts of continuous integration for all research software projects. Continuous integration is the enabler for improving the quality of research software, easing software delivery and ensuring long-term sustainability and availability. Furthermore, SURESOFT will use its technical basis of continuous integration to enable long-term archival and the reproducibility of results.

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