Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)

University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 6 September 2017 Edited by Neil Chue Hong 1 , Stephan Druskat 2 , Robert Haines 3 , Caroline Jay 3 , Daniel S. Katz 4 , Shoaib Sufi 5 1 Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK 2 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany 3 University of Manchester, UK 4 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA 5 Software Sustainability Institute, University of Manchester, UK Contents Track 1: "The state of the art in sustainable research software" Papers - Carina Haupt and Tobias Schlauch: The Software Engineering Community at DLR – How we got where we are. - Udit Nangia and Daniel S. Katz: Surveying the U.S. National Postdoctoral Association Regarding Software Use and Training in Research. - Francisco Queiroz, Raniere Silva, Jonah Miller, Sandor Brockhauser and Hans Fangohr: Good Usability Practices in Scientific Software Development.

Lightning Talks - Sarah Alhozaimy, Robert Haines and Caroline Jay: Forking as a Tool for Software Sustainability—An Empirical Study. - Robin Dasler: CERN Analysis Preservation - Contextualising analyses through data and software preservation. - Raniere Silva: Research Software in Brazil. - Alexander Struck: How red tape and other obstacles are holding us back. - Andrew Washbrook: Continuous software quality analysis for the ATLAS experiment at CERN.