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

在拟议的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学模拟软件项目acCELLErate进行测试和评估，该项目目前处于原型状态，将朝着最佳可用性和大型活跃用户社区的方向发展。SuLMaSS项目的影响有三个方面：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，满足科学界的可证明需求。其次，我们将提供基础设施组件，用于测试，安全维护，引用和科学软件生命周期所有阶段的版本控制，这些软件已在SuLMaSS期间由acCELLErate进行了改进，评估和彻底测试。第三，在SuLMaSS期间，将记录和传播为acCELLErate执行软件生命周期管理的方式，并将其作为可持续科学软件的最佳实践范例，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角色模型和先进的基础设施，这些基础设施部分也可用于外部项目。特别是，我们将根据详细的用户需求分析和目标性能比较来推进acCELLErate。实现这些目标，我们将扩展软件的独特主张，从而为更广泛的科学心脏电生理学社区增加价值。通过在开源许可证下提供用户友好的软件，我们将为大部分可能利用计算心脏建模方法的人员和研究小组提供最佳解决方案。同时，我们将探索，评估和建立一个机构基础设施，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。acCELLErate将推动和展示基础设施的形成，从而作为一个灯塔项目。基于SuLMaSS中所展示的最佳实践范例acCELLErate，开发的基础设施可以在未来被其他科学软件项目所使用。SuLMaSS旨在支持从探索到结论性分析和出版的整个研究生命周期，再到存档以及数据和源代码的共享，从而提高研究结果的质量。此外，我们将支持研究软件的整个生命周期，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、存档、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.