DocumentCode
1376089
Title
What Do We Know about Scientific Software Development´s Agile Practices?
Author
Sletholt, Magnus Thorstein ; Hannay, Jo Erskine ; Pfahl, Dietmar ; Langtangen, Hans Petter
Volume
14
Issue
2
fYear
2012
Firstpage
24
Lastpage
37
Abstract
The development of scientific software has similarities with processes that follow the software engineering "agile manifesto": responsiveness to change and collaboration are of utmost importance. But how well do current scientific software-development processes match the practices found in agile development methods, and what are the effects of using agile practices in such processes?
Keywords
software prototyping; agile development method; scientific software development; software engineering; Collaboration; Documentation; Educational institutions; Encoding; Programming; Software; Testing; Software development; agile practice; case study; computational science; literature review; scientific computing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computing in Science & Engineering
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1521-9615
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCSE.2011.113
Filename
6081842
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