Speakers
Description
Research software is attracting increasing attention from both society and funding agencies, such as the German Research Foundation (DFG). There are lots of exciting opportunities for research into how software engineering practices can be best applied to help the people who develop research software. However, many potential research projects in this area falter because of either misconceptions about software engineering research or misconceptions about research software engineering.
This Birds of a Feather session takes advantage of the co-location of the 2025 German Software Engineering Conference (SE25) and 2025 German Research Software Engineering Conference (deRSE25) to bring together people from both communities who are interested in understanding how software engineering practices can support research software, either from a basic research perspective (creating new knowledge or insight on the development of research software) or applied research perspective (finding solutions to practical problems encountered while building research software).
The expected audience is software engineering researchers (SERs) who are interested in extending their research to research software, and research software engineers (RSEs) who are interested in improvements to the way they build software and advancing the knowledge base around the development of research software. It will also be of interest to those engaged in related meta-science research topics looking at the impact of research software in different areas.
The goals of this session are:
- Increase awareness of what each of the communities (software
engineering researchers and research software engineers) do - Identify topics of interest to both communities
- Connect software engineering researchers to research software engineers to help build possible collaborations
The format of the session would be:
- Introduction and explanation of the intersection
- Lightning talks: 2-3 examples of research topics at the intersection and current research on that topic to give context.
- SER/RSE "speed dating"
- Collection and summarisation of potential topics
Potential lightning talk topics / speakers include:
- Willi Hassebring: applying software categorisation to research
software - Anna Lena Lamprecht: RSE research to inform policymakers
- Mining Software Repositories to identify differences between research software engineering approaches
- Software development models for research software
A blog post summarising the workshop (including the topics identified) will be published after the conference and cross-posted to relevant websites (including de-RSE, BSSw.io, SocRSE, Software Sustainability Institute and US-RSE).
This BoF follows-on from the 2024 Dagstuhl workshop on “Research Software Engineering: Bridging Knowledge Gaps” (Druskat et al., 2024).
This BoF is part of the Software Engineering for Science series of events.
Organisers
- Prof Jeffrey C. Carver, University of Alabama
- Prof Neil Chue Hong, University of Edinburgh
- Prof Dr Michael Felderer, German Aerospace
Centre (DLR) / University of Cologne
References
Stephan Druskat, Lars Grunske, Caroline Jay, and Daniel S. Katz. Research Software Engineering: Bridging Knowledge Gaps (Dagstuhl Seminar 24161). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 42-53, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)
https://doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.14.4.42
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