Suporte ao desenvolvimento de serviços em ecossistemas científicos através da visualização de software

Abstract

Platforms supporting scientific experimentation support scientists and allow them the use of resources to pursue their research. Among these resources are the scientific services, used to process data in certain tasks of a process of scientific experimentation. Specialized developers create and maintain these scientific services. The success of a scientific experiment depends on the correct execution of its process. As scientific services are used in process tasks, their failures undermine all experimentation. Therefore, it is important that the services are working properly. In this context, it is necessary to support the scientific services developer so that he can develop services as efficiently as possible. Therefore, the objective of this work is to present resources that seek to support the development of scientific services in a scientific software ecosystem platform. These resources are associated with a service development process that maps the activities of developers and scientists during service development. It presents an interface for contextual analysis of the services, offering elements of visualization associated with contextual information. In addition, it uses the analysis of scientific social networks to assist in the selection of better suited scientists to the evaluation of services. In order to evaluate these resources, case studies involving the development of scientific services were carried out. The results suggest that the resources employed can support the development of scientific services in a scientific software ecosystem platform.