What do we know about scientific software development's agile practices?

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 24-36

  Sletholt, Magnus Thorstein ^a   Hannay, Jo Erskine ^b   Pfahl, Dietmar ^c   Langtangen, Hans Petter ^b  

^a Distribution Innovation ^*  (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

agile practice; case study; computational science; literature review; scientific computing; Software development

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT METHODS; AGILE PRACTICES; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; LITERATURE REVIEWS; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84858189622     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2011.113     Document Type: Article

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