Some challenges facing software engineers developing software for scientists

Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering, SECSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-14

  Segal, Judith ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; USER ENGAGEMENT;

ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70349914219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SECSE.2009.5069156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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