Indicating Software Quality

A "World Café" to identify criteria that help to indicate the quality of research software. The plan is to provide some basic dimensions that could allow for structuring what can be understood as research software quality (e.g. Software Engineering Concept or FAIRness etc.). The dimensions would be distributed upon different tables ("coffee tables") and the group splits up to gather around the tables. After a while, the groups leave one table and join another. There, the table moderator briefly summarizes the previous discussion to facilitate the further discussion process. The objective at each table is, to identify specific criteria (or attributes, or properties) to each of the dimensions and to identify if these criteria can be assessed quantitatively or qualitatively (e.g. "Test Strategy, qualitative" or "Developer Community, qualitative"). Additionally, it should be assessed if the criteria can be collected in an automated manner. As a result of the session, the group will have provided a criteria-catalog or indicators of how the quality of software that is fit for research could be assessed.

Session chair(s)

• Heidi Seibold, Freelancer

Time

Sun., Sep. 27 14:45 - 16:15

Room

Plenary