DocumentCode
1334704
Title
Engineering the Software for Understanding Climate Change
Author
Easterbrook, Steve M. ; Johns, Timothy C.
Author_Institution
University of Toronto
Volume
11
Issue
6
fYear
2009
Firstpage
65
Lastpage
74
Abstract
Climate scientists build large, complex simulations with little or no software engineering training—and don´t readily adopt the latest software engineering tools and techniques. This ethnographic study of climate scientists shows that their culture and practices share many features of agile and open source projects, but with highly customized software validation and verification techniques.
Keywords
Computational modeling; Earth; High performance computing; Open source software; Physics computing; Programming; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software performance; Software quality; Software development processes; agile; climate models; open source; testing; validation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computing in Science & Engineering
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1521-9615
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCSE.2009.193
Filename
5337646
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