Welcome to the sixth special issue on Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST) of Elsevier’s Science of Computer Programming journal. The EST series aims at allowing academic software developers to publish the software systems they developed with similar rigor as academic papers. Peer reviewers evaluated not only a scientific paper about the developed system but also the system itself. The goal is facilitating the academic software development community to find a wider audience for their work. Moreover, by enhancing the accessibility and reproducibility of the submitted software, a wider application and adoption of experimental software is enabled.
van den Brand, M. G. J., Vinju, J. J., & Mens, K. (2017). Guest editors’ introduction to the 6th issue of Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST-6). Science of Computer Programming, 134(6th issue of Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST-6)), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2016.11.001 (Original work published 2017)