Software Development Environments for Scientific and Engineering Software: A Series of Case Studies

Assessing climate model software quality: a defect density analysis of three models

“…This suggests that climate models from other centres may have similarly low defect densities. Our results are surprising in light of previous studies of scientific software development, which show how volatile and vague their requirements are (Kelly, 2007;Segal and Morris, 2008;Segal, 2008;Carver et al, 2007). Our results suggest that the climate modellers have produced very high quality software under uncertain conditions with little in the way of guidance from the software engineering community.…”

Software Development Cultures and Cooperation Problems: A Field Study of the Early Stages of Development of Software for a Scientific Community

“…The culture of these scientists does not quite fit with the model above: field studies in HPC settings, see, for example, Carver et al (2007) and Kelly (2007), show both similarities and differences with my studies. Among the similarities are the emphasis on the science and the necessity of domain knowledge within the development team.…”

Some Challenges Facing Scientific Software Developers: The Case of Molecular Biology

“…Let us consider the generic challenges first. It is clear that the context in which scientific software is developed is, in general, different from the context of commercial software development, see, Carver et al (2007), Segal (forthcoming).…”