Abstract
Anecdotal evidence suggests that research software engineers (RSEs) and software engineering researchers (SERs) often use different terminologies for similar concepts, creating communication challenges. To better understand these divergences, we have started investigating how software engineering fundamentals from the SER community are interpreted within the RSE community, identifying aligned concepts, knowledge gaps, and areas for potential adaptation. Our preliminary findings reveal opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration, and our systematic methodology for terminology mapping provides a foundation for a crowdsourced extension and validation in the future.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 18-26 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Computing in Science and Engineering |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2025 |
Funding
This material is based in part upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Next-Generation Scientific Software Technologies program, under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This article has been authored in part by UT-Battelle, LLC, under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the DOE. The U.S. government retains and the publisher, by accepting the work for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the submitted manuscript version of this work, or allow others to do so, for U.S. government purposes. The DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance