Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative.
Hasnain says:
Interesting technical read on the problem of reproducibility in science - focused purely on code.
"Whichever language and reproducibility strategies they use, researchers would be wise to put them to the test, says Anna Krystalli, a research software engineer at the University of Sheffield, UK. Krystalli runs workshops called ReproHacks for researchers to submit their own published papers, code and data, and challenge participants to reproduce it. Often, she says, they cannot: crucial details, obvious to the authors but opaque to others, are missing. “All the materials that we’re producing, if we don’t actually use them or engage with them then we don’t really know if they are reproducible,” Krystalli says. “It’s much harder, actually, than people think.”"
Posted on 2020-08-25T07:42:56+0000