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Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions

28 Aug 2017arXiv:1708.08205links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Fabien Benureau, Nicolas Rougier

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Scientific code is not production software. Scientific code participates in the evaluation of a scientific hypothesis. This imposes specific constraints on the code that are often overlooked in practice. We articulate, with a small example, five characteristics that a scientific code in computational science should possess: re-runnable, repeatable, reproducible, reusable and replicable.

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