Motivation Software is vital for the advancement of biology and medicine. Impact evaluations
of scientific software have primarily emphasized traditional citation metrics of associated …

Context Research software is software developed by and/or used by researchers, across a
wide variety of domains, to perform their research. Because of the complexity of research …

Modern research depends on software, and it is developed specifically for and during
research. Moreover, a growing number of researchers develop and use software to conduct …

Background Research software plays an important role in solving real-life problems,
empowering scientific innovations, and handling emergency situations. Therefore, the …

Traditional waterfall or iterative waterfall methods are being used in software industries
since its birth. In the last decade, time to market and flexibility in accommodating customer …

Code smell causes side effects in the source code and impact the code quality. It is
beneficial to recognize code smells to improve software quality. Despite 22 classical code …

Background: Developers face challenges in building high-quality research software due to
its inherent complexity. These challenges can reduce the confidence users have in the …

A software framework is an abstraction that allows to selectively updating software that
provides generic functionality by adding additional code written by the user. Basically, a …

Background The demand for software is increasing every day in various fields. Software
developers put more effort to develop and test the quality of the software and verify its …