Toward Research Software Categories
Software Engineering
2024-04-23 v1
Abstract
Research software has been categorized in different contexts to serve different goals. We start with a look at what research software is, before we discuss the purpose of research software categories. We propose a multi-dimensional categorization of research software. We present a template for characterizing such categories. As selected dimensions, we present our proposed role-based, developer-based, and maturity-based categories. Since our work has been inspired by various previous efforts to categorize research software, we discuss them as related works. We characterize all these categories via the previously introduced template, to enable a systematic comparison.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.14364,
title = {Toward Research Software Categories},
author = {Wilhelm Hasselbring and Stephan Druskat and Jan Bernoth and Philine Betker and Michael Felderer and Stephan Ferenz and Anna-Lena Lamprecht and Jan Linxweiler and Bernhard Rumpe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14364},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
10 pages