Developement of a comprehensive life-cycle approach of Research software

Introduction

Research software(RS) is of fundamental importance for many disciplines to achieve scientific progress. However, it is hard to extend, maintain and deploy, which often terminates with an unusable research software artifact. As it is prevalent that research software codes are buggy, it needs to be continuously maintained.

Problem statement

A common problem is the difficulty to build the necessary software or to reproduce published results. The goal is to enable sustainable research software relying on a continuous integration(CI) approach

Task description

Build a a preliminary prototype of a CI platform core components enabling the continuety of RS.