Top 10 metrics for life science software good practices

Top 10 metrics for life science software good practices

Metrics for assessing adoption of good development practices are a useful way to ensure that software is sustainable, reusable and functional. Sustainability means that the software used today will be available - and continue to be improved and supported - in the future. We report here an initial set of metrics that measure good practices in software development. This initiative differs from pr...

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A Real-Life Database for Software Metrics

Maintenance costs of Information Systems (ISs) are high and are growing. Part of the costs come from low software quality. The quality of software can be measured when it is maintained. By improving the quality of maintenance prone modules future maintenance costs may be lowered for those modules. In this article we will discuss how to measure software quality and we will also present a prototy...

Good Usability Practices in Scientific Software Development

Scientific software often presents very particular requirements regarding usability, which is often completely overlooked in this setting. As computational science has emerged as its own discipline, distinct from theoretical and experimental science, it has put new requirements on future scientific software developments. In this paper, we discuss the background of these problems and introduce n...