Research Software Engineering reading list

RSE Departments, Organizations, and Institutes

• Addressing Research Software Sustainability via Institutes
• Research Software Development & Management in Universities: Case Studies from Manchester's RSDS Group, Illinois' NCSA, and Notre Dame's CRC
• Research, Develop, Deploy: Building a Full Spectrum Software Engineering and Research Department
• Building Bridges: Establishing a Dialogue Between Software Engineering Research and Computational Science

Current Practices

• Practices which can be improved
  • Technical Debt in Computational Science
  • Troubling Trends in Scientific Software Use (ecology)
• Pure observations
  • UK Research Software Survey (dataset)
  • Vertical Integration
  • Developers Perception of Peer Code Review in Research Software Development
• Improved practices
  • The Research Software Engineer
  • Ten Simple Rules for the Open Development of Scientific Software
  • Reducing Technical Debt with Reproducible Containers
  • A Workflow for Increasing the Quality of Scientific Software (in Computational Science and Engineering)
  • Mining Development Data to Understand and Improve Software Engineering Processes in HPC Projects
  • Easing the burden of code review
  • Software Engineering Challenges and Best Practices for Multi-Institutional Scientific Software Development
  • Some Simple Guidelines for Effective Data Management

Famous Bugs

• A Scientist's Nightmare: Software Problem Leads to Five Retractions

Related Lists

• Open Academia reading list
• Reproducibility reading list
• Software Engineering reading list
• Computer Science reading list