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Development of research software at DLR Role and status in practice Lynn von Kurnatowski Carina Haupt Simulations- und Softwaretechnik Simulations- und Softwaretechnik DLR Oberpfaffenhofen DLR Berlin #deRSE19 Potsdam, 06.06.2019 DLR.de

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Development of research software at DLR Role and status in practice

Lynn von Kurnatowski Simulations- und Softwaretechnik DLR Oberpfaffenhofen #deRSE19 Potsdam, 06.06.2019 Carina Haupt Simulations- und Softwaretechnik DLR Berlin

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DLR

Numbers

  • More than 8000 employees
  • ~20% of DLR employees involved

in software development Some Characteristics

  • Variety of
  • Fields
  • Maturity
  • Software technologies
  • Team sizes
  • Backgrounds

> #deRSE19 > Lynn von Kurnatowski - Carina Haupt • Development of research software at DLR > 05.06.2019 DLR.de • Chart 2

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DLR

Numbers

  • More than 8000 employees
  • ~20% of DLR employees involved

in software development Some Characteristics

  • Variety of
  • Fields
  • Maturity
  • Software technologies
  • Team sizes
  • Backgrounds

> #deRSE19 > Lynn von Kurnatowski - Carina Haupt • Development of research software at DLR > 05.06.2019 DLR.de • Chart 3

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Survey about Research Software at DLR

  • Overview of the current role and practice of

research software development at DLR

  • Identification of potential for improvement
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In which Institute do you work?

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DLR.de • Folie 6

Participation of all institutes and promoters ...

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Please select your age

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DLR.de • Folie 8

... and all ages

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Do you write code as part of your job?

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DLR.de • Folie 10

Write code Yes 612 No 161

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Developer Overview Data from participants who do NOT code during their work at DLR were NOT included in the further evaluation.

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In which discipline is your highest academic qualification?

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DLR.de • Folie 13

Academic qualification Computer Science 111 Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering 104 Mechanical Engineering 96 Physics 88

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In an average month, how much time would you like to spend on... In an average month, how much time do you spend on... versus

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DLR.de • Folie 15

… software development

Significant shift to RIGHT

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DLR.de • Folie 16

… research

Significant shift to RIGHT

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DLR.de • Folie 17

… management

Significant shift to LEFT

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DLR.de • Folie 18

… other activities

Significant shift to LEFT

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How many years of software development experience do you have?

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DLR.de • Folie 21

Average is 9 years

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Who uses the code that you write?

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DLR.de • Folie 23

Clear tendency to `Mostly me`

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What programming language do you use at work?

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Which version control tools do you use for software development?

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DLR.de • Folie 27

112 participants NOT use version control

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Documentation

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Are you documenting your software?

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DLR.de • Folie 30

Software documentation Yes 537 No 75

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What kind of documentation do you write?

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DLR.de • Folie 32

Mainly code comments written as documentation

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Testing

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Are you testing your software?

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DLR.de • Folie 35

Yes 591 No 21

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When do you test your software?

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How do you test your software?

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Reference / Citable

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Do you care for making your software citable?

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DLR.de • Folie 42

Yes 414 No 198

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Did you ever reference or acknowledge software in a publication?

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DLR.de • Folie 44

Yes 357 No 255

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How do you reference software in a publication?

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