Introduction to Research Software Engineering

Abstract

his course introduces selected fundamental methods and good practices from software engineering and highlights their value for research. Successful science is based on a systematic approach to research. But in practice, the development and use of research software often lacks methodology: no "laboratory journals" are being kept, the evaluation process is left undocumented, and the testing of results remains unstructured. Furthermore, reviews of self-written software barely occur. But thoroughly checked software and the documentation of its use is increasingly required for scientific publications. Researchers benefit from applying principles of software engineering to their practice.