Sustainable Lifecycle Management for Scientific Software (SuLMaSS) - Software Dissemination and Infrastructure Development Driven by a Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulator

在提议的SuLMaSS项目中，我们将推进、开发、构建、评估和测试科学软件可持续生命周期管理的基础设施。该基础设施将由现有的心脏电生理模拟软件项目Acellerate进行测试和评估，该软件项目目前处于原型状态，将朝着最佳可用性和大规模活跃用户社区的方向发展。因此，我们将设计和实施面向应用的电子研究技术。SuLMaSS项目的影响有三个：首先，我们将提供一个高质量、用户友好的心脏电生理模拟软件包，以适应科学界可证明的需求。其次，我们将为科学软件生命周期的所有阶段提供测试、安全保护、引用和版本控制的基础设施组件，这些组件已经在SuLMaSS期间由Acellerate进行了改进、评估和彻底测试。第三，将在SuLMaSS期间为Acellerate执行软件生命周期管理的方式将被记录和分发，并将作为可持续科学软件的最佳做法范例，也适用于其他社区。德国及其他地区的科学软件开发将受益于上述最佳实践榜样和先进的基础设施，这些先进的基础设施在一定程度上也可用于外部项目。特别是，我们将根据详细的用户需求分析和目标绩效比较来推进加速。实现这些目标后，我们将扩展该软件的独特主张，从而为更广泛的心脏电生理学科学界增加价值。通过在开源许可下提供用户友好的软件，我们将为可能利用计算心脏建模方法的大部分人和研究小组提供最佳解决方案。同时，我们将探索、评估和建立制度基础设施，为可持续的研究软件开发、测试、供应、使用、维护和支持提供基础。Acellerate将推动和展示基础设施的形成，从而作为一个灯塔项目。SuLMaSS的目标是支持从探索到结论分析和发表，再到存档，以及数据和源代码共享的整个研究生命周期，从而提高研究成果的质量。此外，我们将支持研究软件的全生命周期，从需求管理和架构设计到基于社区的协作开发和进步，再到测试、归档、变更管理、持续集成、传播和用户文档，从而提高研究软件的可持续性。

In the proposed SuLMaSS project, we will advance, develop, build, evaluate, and test infrastructure for sustainable lifecycle management of scientific software. The infrastructure will be tested and evaluated by the existing cardiac electrophysiology simulation software project acCELLerate, which is currently in the prototype state and will be advanced towards optimal usability and a large and active user community. Thus, we will design and implement application-oriented e-research technologies.The impact of the SuLMaSS project is three-fold: First, we are going to provide a high quality, user-friendly cardiac electrophysiology simulation software package that accommodates attestable needs of the scientific community. Second, we will deliver infrastructure components for testing, safe-keeping, referencing, and versioning of all phases of the lifecycle of scientific software, which has been advanced, evaluated, and thoroughly tested by acCELLerate during SuLMaSS. Third, the way software lifecycle management will be performed for acCELLerate during SuLMaSS will be documented and dis-seminated and will serve as a best practice example for sustainable scientific software also for other communities. Scientific software development in Germany and beyond will benefit through both the aforementioned best practice role model and the advanced infrastructure that will, in part, be available for external projects as well.Particularly, we are going to advance acCELLerate based on a detailed user needs analysis and a target performance comparison. Achieving the targets, we will extend the unique proposition of the software and hence add value for the wider scientific cardiac electrophysiology community. By making the user-friendly software available under an open source license, we will provide the optimal solution for a large share of the people and research groups that can potentially leverage computational cardiac modeling methods. Synchronously, we will explore, evaluate and establish an institutional infrastructure that provides the basis for sustainable research software development, testing, supply, usage, maintenance, and support. acCELLerate will drive and showcase the infrastructure formation, thus serving as a lighthouse project. The developed infrastructure can be used by other scientific software projects in the future based on the best practice example acCELLerate demonstrated within SuLMaSS.SuLMaSS aims to support the full research lifecycle from exploration through conclusive analysis and publication, to archival, and sharing of data and source code, thus increasing the quality of research results. Moreover, we will support the full lifecycle of research software from requirements management and architecture design through community-based collaborative development and advancement, to testing, archival, change management, continuous integration, dissemination, and user documentation, thus improving sustainability of research software.