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Computational reproducibility refers to obtaining consistent results when rerunning an experiment. Jupyter Notebook, a web-based computational notebook application, facilitates running, publishing, and sharing computational experiments…

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Open science initiatives seek to make research outputs more transparent, accessible, and reusable, but ensuring that published findings can be independently reproduced remains a persistent challenge. In this paper we describe an AI-driven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Adrien Bibal , Steven N. Minton , Deborah Khider , Yolanda Gil

The increasing adoption of Jupyter notebooks in data science and machine learning workflows has created a gap between exploratory code development and production-ready software systems. While notebooks excel at iterative development and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hanya Elhashemy , Youssef Lotfy , Yongjian Tang

Background: Research software is software developed by and/or used by researchers, across a wide variety of domains, to perform their research. Because of the complexity of research software, developers cannot conduct exhaustive testing. As…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Nasir U. Eisty , Jeffrey C. Carver

Quantum computing proposes a revolutionary paradigm that can radically transform numerous scientific and industrial application domains. To realize this promise, new capabilities need software solutions that are able to effectively harness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Otso Kinanen , Andrés D. Muñoz-Moller , Vlad Stirbu , Tommi Mikkonen

Computational notebook software such as Jupyter Notebook is popular for data science tasks. Numerous computational notebooks are available on the Web and reusable; however, searching for computational notebooks manually is a tedious task,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Misato Horiuchi , Yuya Sasaki , Chuan Xiao , Makoto Onizuka

Jupyter Notebook is the tool of choice of many data scientists in the early stages of ML workflows. The notebook format, however, has been criticized for inducing bad programming practices; indeed, researchers have already shown that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Luigi Quaranta , Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile

Producing code of good quality is an essential skill in software development. Code quality is an aspect of software quality that concerns the directly observable properties of code, such as decomposition, modularization, and code flow. Code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Eduardo Carneiro Oliveira , Hieke Keuning , Johan Jeuring

Software quality is an important problem for technology companies, since it substantially impacts the efficiency, usefulness, and maintainability of the final product; hence, code review is a must-do activity for software developers. During…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Abduljaleel Al-Rubaye , Gita Sukthankar

Computational notebooks, tools that facilitate storytelling through exploration, data analysis, and information visualization, have become the widely accepted standard in the data science community. These notebooks have been widely adopted…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Venkatesh Potluri , Sudheesh Singanamalla , Nussara Tieanklin , Jennifer Mankoff

Over the recent years the importance of numerical experiments has gradually been more recognized. Nonetheless, sufficient documentation of how computational results have been obtained is often not available. Especially in the scientific…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Jörg Fehr , Jan Heiland , Christian Himpe , Jens Saak

Code search is an important and frequent activity for developers using computational notebooks (e.g., Jupyter). The flexibility of notebooks brings challenges for effective code search, where classic search interfaces for traditional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xingjun Li , Yuanxin Wang , Hong Wang , Yang Wang , Jian Zhao

Computational reproducibility is fundamental to trustworthy science, yet remains difficult to achieve in practice across various research workflows, including Jupyter notebooks published alongside scholarly articles. Environment drift,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sheeba Samuel , Daniel Mietchen , Hemanta Lo , Martin Gaedke

There has been a large focus in recent years on making assets in scientific research findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, collectively known as the FAIR principles. A particular area of focus lies in applying these principles…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Robin A Richardson , Remzi Celebi , Sven van der Burg , Djura Smits , Lars Ridder , Michel Dumontier , Tobias Kuhn

While software and algorithms have become increasingly important in astronomy, the majority of authors who publish computational astronomy research do not share the source code they develop, making it difficult to replicate and reuse the…

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While functionality and correctness of code has traditionally been the main focus of computing educators, quality aspects of code are getting increasingly more attention. High-quality code contributes to the maintainability of software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Hieke Keuning , Johan Jeuring , Bastiaan Heeren

We report a user-friendly software environment for battery data science. It is designed to streamline data management, data cleaning, and data analysis to help bridge the gap between the domain expertise of most battery scientists and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Robert Masse , Dan Ulery , Hardik Kamdar

Scientists spend an increasing amount of time building and using software. However, most scientists are never taught how to do this efficiently. As a result, many are unaware of tools and practices that would allow them to write more…

Programs are a kind of communication to both computers and people, hence as students are trained to write programs they need to learn to write well-designed, readable code rather than code that simply functions correctly. The difficulty in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-08 J. Walker Orr

Reproducibility is a core requirement of modern scientific research. For computational research, reproducibility means that code should produce the same results, even when run on different systems. A standard approach to ensuring…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Paxton C. Fitzpatrick , Jeremy R. Manning