HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Software Development, Deployment and Validation

Understand

The High Energy Phyiscs community has developed and needs to maintain many tens of millions of lines of code and to integrate effectively the work of thousands of developers across large collaborations.

• Software needs to be built, validated, and deployed across hundreds of sites.
• Software also has a lifetime of many years, frequently beyond that of the original developer, it must be developed with sustainability in mind.
• Adequate recognition of software development as a critical task in the HEP community needs to be fostered and an appropriate publication and citation strategy needs to be developed.