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In recent years, the research community has raised serious questions about the reproducibility of scientific work. In particular, since many studies include some kind of computing work, reproducibility is also a technological challenge, not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Lázaro Costa , Susana Barbosa , Jácome Cunha

We describe the Rocker project, which provides a widely-used suite of Docker images with customized R environments for particular tasks. We discuss how this suite is organized, and how these tools can increase portability, scaling,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Carl Boettiger , Dirk Eddelbuettel

We introduce Repro, an open-source library which aims at improving the reproducibility and usability of research code. The library provides a lightweight Python API for running software released by researchers within Docker containers which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Daniel Deutsch , Dan Roth

Modern science clearly demands for a higher level of reproducibility and collaboration. To make research fully reproducible one has to take care of several aspects: research protocol description, data access, environment preservation,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Timothy Daniel Head , Igor Babuschkin , Alexander Tiunov

Docker technology has been increasingly used among software developers in a multitude of projects. This growing interest is due to the fact that Docker technology supports a convenient process for creating and building containers, promoting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Mubin Ul Haque , Leonardo Horn Iwaya , M. Ali Babar

The reproduction and replication of research results has become a major issue for a number of scientific disciplines. In computer science and related computational disciplines such as systems biology, the challenges closely revolve around…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Tom Crick , Benjamin A. Hall , Samin Ishtiaq

Containerization allows bundling applications and their dependencies into a single image. The containerization framework Docker eases the use of this concept and enables sharing images publicly, gaining high momentum. However, it can lead…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Markus Dahlmanns , Constantin Sander , Robin Decker , Klaus Wehrle

Reproducibility remains a central challenge in computational social science, where complex workflows, evolving software ecosystems, and inconsistent documentation hinder researchers ability to re-execute published methods. This study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fakhri Momeni , Sarah Sajid , Johannes Kiesel

In a new effort to make our research transparent and reproducible by others, we developed a workflow to run and share computational studies on the public cloud Microsoft Azure. It uses Docker containers to create an image of the application…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Olivier Mesnard , Lorena A. Barba

Containerization, driven by Docker, has transformed application development and deployment by enhancing efficiency and scalability. However, the rapid adoption of container technologies introduces significant security challenges that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Gogulakrishnan Thiyagarajan , Prabhudarshi Nayak

Recent developments in the commercial open source community have catalysed the use of Linux containers for scalable deployment of web-based applications to the cloud. Scientific software can be containerized with dependencies, configuration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Robert Nagler , David Bruhwiler , Paul Moeller , Stephen Webb

Over the last few years, the use of virtualization technologies has increased dramatically. This makes the demand for efficient and secure virtualization solutions become more obvious. Container-based virtualization and hypervisor-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-14 Thanh Bui

The cloud computing landscape is rapidly expanding and growing in complexity. It has witnessed the emergence of Cloud Computing as a widely adopted model for efficiently processing large volumes of data by harnessing clusters of commodity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Prathamesh Muzumdar , Amol Bhosale , Ganga Prasad Basyal , George Kurian

R packages are the fundamental units of reproducible code in R, providing a mechanism for distributing user-developed code, documentation, and data. Docker is a virtualization technology that allows applications and their dependencies to be…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-23 V. P. Nagraj , Stephen D. Turner

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

The disconnect between distributed software artifacts and their supposed source code enables attackers to leverage the build process for inserting malicious functionality. Past research in this field focuses on compiled language ecosystems,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Timo Pohl , Pavel Novák , Marc Ohm , Michael Meier

Science reproducibility is a cornerstone feature in scientific workflows. In most cases, this has been implemented as a way to exactly reproduce the computational steps taken to reach the final results. While these steps are often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Karan Vahi , Mats Rynge , George Papadimitriou , Duncan A. Brown , Rajiv Mayani , Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Ewa Deelman , Anirban Mandal , Eric Lyons , Michael Zink

Software developers often submit questions to technical Q&A sites like Stack Overflow (SO) to resolve code-level problems. In practice, they include example code snippets with questions to explain the programming issues. Existing research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Saikat Mondal , Banani Roy

Ensuring the reproducibility of scientific work is crucial as it allows the consistent verification of scientific claims and facilitates the advancement of knowledge by providing a reliable foundation for future research. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Lázaro Costa , Susana Barbosa , Jácome Cunha

Software design patterns present general code solutions to common software design problems. Modern software systems rely heavily on containers for running their constituent service components. Yet, despite the prevalence of ready-to-use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kalvin Eng , Abram Hindle , Eleni Stroulia