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Presentation Title Insights from EVERSE Technology Watch A curated collection of software quality tools for research 11th Sept 2025 Shraddha Bajare, Software Quality Engineer SKA Observatory
Slide / EVERSE European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence (Software for science communities by the communities) REFERENCE FRAMEWORK https://everse.software/ 2 Image 1: Science clusters and project partners Source: EVERSE project documents and site Image 1: Reference framework Source: EVERSE project documents and site
Slide / EVERSE’s Software Quality Network and Services EVERSE aims - to create a framework for research software and code excellence, collaboratively designed and championed by the research communities - in pursuit of building a European network of Research Software Quality and setting the foundations of a future Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence 3 Image 3: EVERSE software quality network and services Source: EVERSE project documents
Slide / EVERSE: Research Software Framework Three-Tier Software Model Analysis Code Prototype Tools Research Software Infrastructure ●Framework to understand diverse landscape of software in research ●Intent behind research software ●Focusing on purpose for which the software is being built ●Framework for addressing specific challenges at each tier of software 4
Slide / A curated collection of software quality tools for research • How do we know that we are collecting something sensible? Strategy - To build a shared understanding of tools and technologies for software quality within the EVERSE ecosystem. From Ideas to Structure - Refinement Process - Collected, grouped, and assessed tools Iterated and narrowed the list - Focused on usefulness and relevance to research software practices How it started - Brainstormed early ideas - Started with a naive plan - Mapped tools to EVERSE RSQKit components - Asked ourselves: What tools do we use ? What do we want from a Tech Watch ? Collaboration - Internal Brainstorming Engaged internal EVERSE teams. Clarified use cases and expectations - Wider Engagement Ran workshops across the network Collected tool suggestions from different domains real-world use case 5
Slide / Ideas and Use cases 6 Image 4: MIRO workshop ideas and use cases Source: SKAO project MIRO board
Slide / EVERSE Technology Watch/Radar ●What is it? ○A curated catalogue of tools and services for research software quality ○Tools which are designed to assess, measure and improve software quality ○Categorised and presented on alignment with the established quality dimensions as segment https://everse.software/TechRadar/ 7 Image 4: EVERSE Tech Radar Source: EVERSE Techradar site
Slide / Structure Quality Dimensions (Segments) ●Compatibility ●FAIRness ●Flexibility ●Functional Suitability ●Interaction Capability ●Maintainability ●Performance Efficiency ●Reliability ●Safety ●Security ●Sustainability Tool classification (Rings) ●Analysis Code ●Prototype Tools ●Research Software Infrastructure 8
Slide / ●Linters & Static Analyzers (e.g., Pylint, SonarQube) ●Testing Frameworks (e.g., Pytest, JUnit) ●Documentation Tools (e.g., Sphinx, Doxygen) ●Dependency & Environment Managers (e.g., Docker) ●CI/CD & Automation Tools (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins) Tools: Types and Metadata Entries Example Tool Metadata 9
