SPRUCE: Systems and Software Producibility Collaboration and experimentation environment

SPRUCE (Systems and Software Producibility Collaboration and Experimentation Environment) is an open web portal and experimentation environment to bring together software developers, software technology users, and software engineering researchers by collaborating on specifying and solving software producibility challenge problems. The SPRUCE approach emphasizes: (1) collaboration around well-defined challenge problems with project-specific artifacts that are representative of large-scale engineering projects; and (2) experimentation for reproducing the stated problems, establishing benchmarks and evaluating solutions. In this demonstration, we will showcase SPRUCE´s key features, including self-organizing communities of interest (CoI), dynamically evolving challenge problems with accompanying artifacts, and built-in experimentation facilities to reproduce the problems and evaluate solutions. Finally, we will highlight early experiences and results with representative challenge problems.