A survey of scientific software development

ESEM 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nguyen Hoan, Luke ^a   Flint, Shayne ^a   Sankaranarayana, Ramesh ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

scientific software; scientists; software engineering; survey

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARES; SCIENTISTS; TOOL USE; VERIFICATION ACTIVITIES; VERSION CONTROL;

SURVEYS; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78149247225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1852786.1852802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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