Title
ReproServer: Making Reproducibility Easier and Less Intensive.
Abstract
Reproducibility in the computational sciences has been stymied because of the complex and rapidly changing computational environments in which modern research takes place. While many will espouse reproducibility as a value, the challenge of making it happen (both for themselves and testing the reproducibility of othersu0027 work) often outweigh the benefits. There have been a few reproducibility solutions designed and implemented by the community. In particular, the authors are contributors to ReproZip, a tool to enable computational reproducibility by tracing and bundling together research in the environment in which it takes place (e.g. oneu0027s computer or server). In this white paper, we introduce a tool for unpacking ReproZip bundles in the cloud, ReproServer. ReproServer takes an uploaded ReproZip bundle (.rpz file) or a link to a ReproZip bundle, and users can then unpack them in the cloud via their browser, allowing them to reproduce colleaguesu0027 work without having to install anything locally. This will help lower the barrier to reproducing othersu0027 work, which will aid reviewers in verifying the claims made in papers and reusing previously published research.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Software Engineering
White paper,Reproducibility,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Reuse,Computer science,Upload,Tracing,Unpacking,Bundle,Cloud computing
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1808.01406
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rémi Rampin100.68
Fernando Seabra Chirigati220516.38
Vicky Steeves301.01
Juliana Freire43956270.89