Ten Recommendations for Engineering Research Software in Energy Research
Ferenz, Stephan and Frost, Emilie and Schrage, Rico and Wolgast, Thomas and Beyers, Inga and Karras, Oliver and Werth, Oliver and Nieße, Astrid
Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems
Energy research software (ERS) is a central cornerstone to facilitate energy research. However, ERS is developed by researchers who, in many cases, lack formal training in software engineering. This reduces the quality of ERS, leading to limited reproducibility and reusability. To address these issues, we developed ten central recommendations for the development of ERS, covering areas such as conceptualization, development, testing, and publication of ERS. The recommendations are based on the outcomes of two workshops with a diverse group of energy researchers and aim to improve the awareness of research software engineering in the energy domain. The recommendations should enhance the quality of ERS and, therefore, the reproducibility of energy research.
June / 2025
inproceedings
Association for Computing Machinery
E-Energy '25
446-459
NFDI4Energy
National Research Data Infrastructure for the Interdisciplinary Energy System Research
National Research Data Infrastructure for the Interdisciplinary Energy System Research
