Collaborative experience between scientific software projects using Agile Scrum development

Autor: Baxter, Amanda L., Benzvi, Segev Y., Walter, Bonivento, Adam, Brazier, Michael, Clark, Alexis, Coleiro, David, Collom, Marta, Colomer???molla, Bryce, Cousins, Aliwen Delgado Orellana, Damien, Dornic, Vladislav, Ekimtcov, Shereen, Elsayed, Andrea Gallo Rosso, Patrick, Godwin, Spencer, Griswold, Alec, Habig, Remington, Hill, Shunsaku, Horiuchi, Andrew Howell, D., Johnson, Margaret W. G., Mario, Juri??, Kneller, James P., Abigail, Kopec, Claudio, Kopper, Vladimir, Kulikovskiy, Mathieu, Lamoureux, Lang, Rafael F., Shengchao, Li, Massimiliano, Lincetto, Lindy, Lindstrom, Linvill, Mark W., Curtis, Mccully, Jost, Migenda, Danny, Milisavljevic, Spencer, Nelson, Rita, Novoseltseva, Erin, O'Sullivan, Donald, Petravick, Pointon, Barry W., Nirmal, Raj, Andrew, Renshaw, Janet, Rumleskie, Tom, Sonley, Ron, Tapia, Tseng, Jeffrey C. L., Tunnell, Christopher D., Godefroy, Vannoye, Vigorito, Carlo F., Virtue, Clarence J., Christopher, Weaver, Weil, Kathryn E., Lindley, Winslow, Rich, Wolski, Xun??? Jie Xu, Yiyang, Xu
Přispěvatelé: AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), SCiMMA, SNEWS 2.0
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Software Pract.Exper.
Software Pract.Exper., 2022, 52 (10), pp.2077-2096. ⟨10.1002/spe.3120⟩
Popis: Developing sustainable software for the scientific community requires expertise in software engineering and domain science. This can be challenging due to the unique needs of scientific software, the insufficient resources for software engineering practices in the scientific community, and the complexity of developing for evolving scientific contexts. While open-source software can partially address these concerns, it can introduce complicating dependencies and delay development. These issues can be reduced if scientists and software developers collaborate. We present a case study wherein scientists from the SuperNova Early Warning System collaborated with software developers from the Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics project. The collaboration addressed the difficulties of open-source software development, but presented additional risks to each team. For the scientists, there was a concern of relying on external systems and lacking control in the development process. For the developers, there was a risk in supporting a user-group while maintaining core development. These issues were mitigated by creating a second Agile Scrum framework in parallel with the developers' ongoing Agile Scrum process. This Agile collaboration promoted communication, ensured that the scientists had an active role in development, and allowed the developers to evaluate and implement the scientists' software requirements. The collaboration provided benefits for each group: the scientists actuated their development by using an existing platform, and the developers utilized the scientists' use-case to improve their systems. This case study suggests that scientists and software developers can avoid scientific computing issues by collaborating and that Agile Scrum methods can address emergent concerns.
Revisions: in response to peer-review recommendations, most sections have been substantially expanded and reworked, five new figures have been added, and the title has been changed. Results unchanged
Databáze: OpenAIRE