Software evaluation

How do we evaluate research software to meet different requirements?

By Alexander Struck, Chris Richardson, Matthias Katerbow, Rafael Jimenez, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, and Jared O'Neal. Software written to solve research questions gains more recognition as a research result of its own and requires evaluation in terms of usability as well as its potential to facilitate high-impact and reproducible research. Indeed, in recent times there has been increased emphasis on the importance of reproducibility in science – particularly of results where software is involved. In order to tackle this problem, there have been efforts for evaluating reproducibility of research…

Online sustainability evaluation

The following evaluation is a short, free, online version of the full sustainability evaluation that the Institute can perform for your project.

Software Evaluation Guide

By Mike Jackson, Steve Crouch and Rob Baxter

Research Software Group update: Open Call round 6, integration testing Grid accounting software, and reviewing sustainability

By Steve Crouch, Research Software Group lead

With Autumn just around the corner, September has seen some exciting activities within the Institute’s Research Software Group. We’re helping improve the testing of Grid accounting software used by the Large Hadron Collider, we’re assessing the sustainability of a web service that supports greater fitness, and we’ve had a record number of applications into the recently closed Open Call!

How open is your software?

By Mike Jackson, Software Architect.

The UK open source service, OSS Watch, have recently published their Openness Rating tool. This tool allows projects to assess their openness and can be applied to both open and closed source software. In this blog post, I'll provide a summary of the Openness Rating tool and how it complements our own online Sustainability Evaluation Service.

Online sustainability evaluation

Software evaluation results

This software evaluation report is for your software called: softwarename. It is a list of recommendations that are based on the survey questions to which you answered "no".

How to get hold of this report

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