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In the current software development environment, third-party libraries play a crucial role. They provide developers with rich functionality and convenient solutions, speeding up the pace and efficiency of software development. However, with…

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Great advances in computing and communication technology are bringing many benefits to society, with transformative changes and financial opportunities being created in health care, transportation, education, law enforcement, national…

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Research software -- specialist software used to support or undertake research -- is of huge importance to researchers. It contributes to significant advances in the wider world and requires collaboration between people with diverse skills…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Neil P. Chue Hong , Jeremy Cohen , Caroline Jay

The profile of research software engineering has been greatly enhanced by developments at institutions around the world to form groups and communities that can support effective, sustainable development of research software. We observe,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Jeremy Cohen , Daniel S. Katz , Michelle Barker , Robert Haines , Neil Chue Hong

Research has become increasingly reliant on software, serving as the driving force behind bioinformatics, high performance computing, physics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, to name a few. While substantial progress has been…

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Poor software quality can adversely affect application security by increasing the potential for a malicious breach of a system. Because computer security and cybersecurity are becoming such relevant topics for practicing software engineers,…

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How should software engineering be adapted for Computational Science (CS)? If we understood that, then we could better support software sustainability, verifiability, reproducibility, comprehension, and usability for CS community. For…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Huy Tu , Rishabh Agrawal , Tim Menzies

The intersection between security and continuous software engineering has been of great interest since the early years of the agile development movement, and it remains relevant as software development processes are more frequently guided…

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Reliability prediction is crucial for ensuring the safety and security of software systems, especially in the context of industry practices. While various metrics and measurements are employed to assess software reliability, the complexity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dapeng Yan , Wenjie Yang , Kui Liu , Zhiming Liu , Zhikuang Cai

Contemporary debates on "open science" mostly focus on the pub- lic accessibility of the products of scientific and academic work. In contrast, this paper presents arguments for "opening" the ongoing work of science. That is, this paper is…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-02-17 Pratim Sengupta , Marie-Claire Shanahan

Open source is the connective tissue for much of the information economy. You would be hard-pressed to find a scenario where your data does not pass through at least one open source component. Many of the services and technology we all rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nicole Forsgren , Bas Alberts , Kevin Backhouse , Grey Baker , Greg Cecarelli , Derek Jedamski , Scot Kelly , Clair Sullivan

Scientific software is essential to scientific innovation and in many ways it is distinct from other types of software. Abandoned (or unmaintained), buggy, and hard to use software, a perception often associated with scientific software can…

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This document explores the advantages of integrating open source software and practices in managing a scientific lab, emphasizing reproducibility and the avoidance of pitfalls. It details practical applications from website management using…

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Open science describes the movement of making any research artefact available to the public and includes, but is not limited to, open access, open data, and open source. While open science is becoming generally accepted as a norm in other…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Daniel Méndez Fernández , Daniel Graziotin , Stefan Wagner , Heidi Seibold

System security assurance provides the confidence that security features, practices, procedures, and architecture of software systems mediate and enforce the security policy and are resilient against security failure and attacks. Alongside…

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Most scientists need software to perform their research (Barker et al., 2020; Carver et al., 2022; Hettrick, 2014; Hettrick et al., 2014; Switters and Osimo, 2019), and neuroscientists are no exception. Whether we work with reaction times,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Britta U. Westner , Daniel R. McCloy , Eric Larson , Alexandre Gramfort , Daniel S. Katz , Arfon M. Smith , invited co-signees

Sustainable software ecosystems are difficult to build, and require concerted effort, community norms and collaborations. In science it is especially important to establish communities in which faculty, staff, students and open-source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Marcus D. Hanwell , Amitha Perera , Wes Turner , Patrick O'Leary , Katie Osterdahl , Bill Hoffman , Will Schroeder

Digital transformation is a hot topic in the current global environment as a large number of organizations have been working to adopt digital solutions. Software engineering has also emerged to be a more important role as a large number of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Mamdouh Alenezi

The rapid development of computer network system brings both a great convenience and new security threats for users. Network security problem generally includes network system security and data security. Specifically, it refers to the…

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