TY - RPRT T1 - Manifesto on Engineering Academic Software (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252) Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alice Allen A1 - Cecilia Aragon A1 - Christoph Becker A1 - Jeffrey Carver A1 - Andrei Chiş A1 - Benoit Combemale A1 - Mike Croucher A1 - Kevin Crowston A1 - Daniel Garijo A1 - Ashish Gehani A1 - Carole Goble A1 - Robert Haines A1 - Robert Hirschfeld A1 - James Howison A1 - Kathryn Huff A1 - Caroline Jay A1 - Daniel S. Katz A1 - Claude Kirchner A1 - Katie Kuksenok A1 - Ralf Lämmel A1 - Oscar Nierstrasz A1 - Matt Turk A1 - van Nieuwpoort, Rob A1 - Matthew Vaughn A1 - Jurgen Vinju AB - Software is often a critical component of scientific research. It can be a component of the academic research methods used to produce research results, or it may itself be an academic research result. Software, however, has rarely been considered to be a citable artifact in its own right. With the advent of open-source software, artifact evaluation committees of conferences, and journals that include source code and running systems as part of the published artifacts, we foresee that software will increasingly be recognized as part of the academic process. The quality and sustainability of this software must be accounted for, both a priori and a posteriori. The Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on “Engineering Academic Software” has examined the strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities of academic software engineering. A key outcome of the workshop is this Dagstuhl Manifesto, serving as a roadmap towards future professional software engineering for software-based research instruments and other software produced and used in an academic context. The manifesto is expressed in terms of a series of actionable “pledges” that users and developers of academic research software can take as concrete steps towards improving the environment in which that software is produced. JF - Dagstuhl Manifestos PB - Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics CY - Wadern, Germany VL - 6 IS - 1 ER -