MRPUA - Making Reproducibility Packages Usable (Again)

General Information

You are a researcher working on software-engineering topics or a practitioner interested in current tools from software-engineering research? Did you make the experience of trying to reuse a software artifact from a software-engineering research paper and failing to execute it? Or did your reproduced results diverge significantly from what was reported in the respective paper? Do you want to help improve reproducibility packages so that you do not have to spend hours on getting the software to run?

Then, join our in-person hackathon “Making Reproducibility Packages Usable (Again)” co-located with ESEM 2026 in Munich, Germany. We want to explore together with you what makes reproducibility packages hard to (re-)use and what can be improved.

This is a replication of a prior hackathon that was held as an adjacent event to the German Conference for Research Software Engineering (https://go.uniwue.de/derse24) on March 7, 2024.

Organization

• Sebastian Nielebock - Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
• Jacob Krüger - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Andreas Bauer - Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany
• Alexander Nolte - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Michael Dorner - Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany

How to join

1. Please express your interest to join the MRPUA Hackathon using this Google form
2. Register for ESEM 2026 and register for the MRPUA Hackathon. (Registration Link TBD)
3. Attend the Hackathon at ESEM 2026 and make reproducibility packages work (Note: Own laptops are required for the Hackathon!)

Important dates

• Expression of interest deadline: TBD
• Workshop: TBD (@ESEM)

Program

• TBA

Contact and further information

Any questions regarding the hackathon can be submitted to Sebastian Nielebock.

Further details on the exact time and location hackathon will be available on the ESEM 2026 webpage (https://conf.researchr.org/home/eseiw-2026) closer to the conference.


Hope to see you in Munich!
Sebastian, Jacob, Andreas, Alexander, and Michael