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by YorkshireSeason
2855 days ago
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Sharing code is not
always the answer
Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good?Sharing code is not the full answer, especially in case of Monte-Carlo simulations in physics, because
that kind of algorithm is hard to test: What is the testing oracle?
What is the specification? But sharing code is part of the answer. Setting up a culture where it is unacceptable to submit a paper
without open-sourcing the code and suitable testing (for simple
edge ases), and suitable scripts that make reproducing the software
simulations easy, is good scientific 'hygiene'. See for example [1,
2] for efforts towards reproducible software submissions in computer
science. Reproduciblility is the very essence of the scientific method. [1] http://evaluate.inf.usi.ch/artifacts [2] http://www.artifact-eval.org/ |
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