CERN Accelerating science

Preprint
Report number	arXiv:1712.07959 ; HSF-CWP-2017-13
Title	HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Software Development, Deployment and Validation
Author(s)	Couturier, Benjamin (CERN) ; Eulisse, Giulio (Northeastern U.) ; Grasland, Hadrien (Orsay, LAL) ; Hegner, Benedikt (CERN) ; Jouvin, Michel (Orsay, LAL) ; Kane, Meghan (Unlisted, DE) ; Katz, Daniel S. (Illinois U., Urbana (main)) ; Kuhr, Thomas (Munich U.) ; Lange, David (Princeton U.) ; Mendez Lorenzo, Patricia (CERN) ; Ritter, Martin (Munich U.) ; Stewart, Graeme Andrew (Glasgow U.) ; Valassi, Andrea (CERN)
Publication	2017
Imprint	2017-12-21
Number of pages	25
Subject category	hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment ; physics.comp-ph ; Other Fields of Physics
Abstract	The High Energy Phyiscs community has developed and needs to maintain many tens of millions of lines of code and to integrate effectively the work of thousands of developers across large collaborations. Software needs to be built, validated, and deployed across hundreds of sites. Software also has a lifetime of many years, frequently beyond that of the original developer, it must be developed with sustainability in mind. Adequate recognition of software development as a critical task in the HEP community needs to be fostered and an appropriate publication and citation strategy needs to be developed. As part of the HEP Softare Foundation's Community White Paper process a working group on Software Development, Deployment and Validation was formed to examine all of these issues, identify best practice and to formulare recommendations for the next decade. Its report is presented here.
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