Software testing and verification in climate model development

IEEE Software

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 49-55

  Clune, Thomas L ^a   Rood, Richard B ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

program verification; software engineering; testing and debugging; testing strategies

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; COARSE-GRAINED; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE TOOLS; COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE; COMPUTING RESOURCE; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SYSTEMS; PARALLEL CLUSTERS; PROGRAM VERIFICATION; REGRESSION TESTS; SYSTEM LEVELS; TESTING AND DEBUGGING; TESTING METHODOLOGY; TESTING STRATEGIES; UNIT TESTS; VERIFICATION PROCESS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 80054880552     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2011.117     Document Type: Article

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