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It Takes a Socio-Technical Ecosystem

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John D. McGregor, J. Yates Monteith

Software Engineering · Submitted 15 Oct 2015

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The authors' main claim A socio-technical ecosystem provides the environment in which these issues can be traded off.

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CitationJohn D. McGregor, J. Yates Monteith. "It Takes a Socio-Technical Ecosystem." arXiv:1510.04586 (2015). https://pith.science/paper/X54MZYEG
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There are both technical and social issues regarding the design of sustainable scientific software. Scientists want continuously evolving systems that capture the most recent knowledge while developers and architects want sufficiently stable requirements to ensure correctness and efficiency. A socio-technical ecosystem provides the environment in which these issues can be traded off.

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s1 Scientists want continuously evolving systems that capture the most recent knowledge while developers and architects want sufficiently stable requirements to ensure correctness and efficiency. background 1.00 0.09 0.06 asserted 1.00
s2 A socio-technical ecosystem provides the environment in which these issues can be traded off. contribution 0.53 0.11 0.60 asserted 0.99

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There are both technical and social issues regarding the design of sustainable scientific software. Scientists want continuously evolving systems that capture the most recent knowledge while developers and architects want sufficiently stable requirements to ensure correctness and efficiency. A socio-technical ecosystem provides the environment in which these issues can be traded off.

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