title: Top 10 metrics for life science software good practices.
abstract: Metrics for assessing adoption of good development practices are a useful way to ensure that software is sustainable, reusable and functional. Sustainability means that the software used today will be available - and continue to be improved and supported - in the future. We report here an initial set of metrics that measure good practices in software development. This initiative differs from previously developed efforts in being a community-driven grassroots approach where experts from different organisations propose good software practices that have reasonable potential to be adopted by the communities they represent. We not only focus our efforts on understanding and prioritising good practices, we assess their feasibility for implementation and publish them here.
authors.affiliation: The Earlham Institute & ELIXIR-UK, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
authors.forename: Haydee
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Artaza
authors.affiliation: Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chue Hong
authors.affiliation: The Earlham Institute & ELIXIR-UK, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Corpas
authors.affiliation: University "La Sapienza, Rome, 00185, Italy.
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Corpuz
authors.affiliation: DTL, PO Box 19245, Utrecht, 3501 DE, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hooft
authors.affiliation: ELIXIR Hub, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Rafael C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Jimenez
authors.affiliation: Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (IBMI), Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI-1104, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Brane
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Leskošek
authors.affiliation: Systems Bioinformatics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Brett G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Olivier
authors.affiliation: Loschmidt Laboratories, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, 625 00, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stourac
authors.affiliation: CEITEC Masaryk University, Brno, 625 00, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Radka
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Svobodová Vařeková
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Van Parys
authors.affiliation: EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vaughan
keywords: ELIXIR; Evaluation; Impact; Metrics; Software, Best Practices; Sustainability