Sustainable Software Ecosystems: Software Engineers, Domain Scientists, and Engineers Collaborating for Science
This work targets the problem of software sustainability in scientific domains, but it is incremental as it builds on existing collaboration models without introducing new methods or data.
The paper addresses the challenge of developing sustainable, reproducible, and extensible scientific software by advocating for collaborations between domain scientists and software engineers, aiming to enhance scientific research outcomes.
The development of scientific software is often a partnership between domain scientists and scientific software engineers. It is especially important to embrace these collaborations when developing advanced scientific software, where sustainability, reproducibility, and extensibility are important. In the ideal case, as discussed in this manuscript, this brings together teams composed of the world's foremost scientific experts in a given field with seasoned software developers experienced in forming highly collaborative teams working on software to further scientific research.