• 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