Title :
What Do We Know about Scientific Software Development´s Agile Practices?
Author :
Sletholt, Magnus Thorstein ; Hannay, Jo Erskine ; Pfahl, Dietmar ; Langtangen, Hans Petter
Abstract :
The development of scientific software has similarities with processes that follow the software engineering "agile manifesto": responsiveness to change and collaboration are of utmost importance. But how well do current scientific software-development processes match the practices found in agile development methods, and what are the effects of using agile practices in such processes?
Keywords :
software prototyping; agile development method; scientific software development; software engineering; Collaboration; Documentation; Educational institutions; Encoding; Programming; Software; Testing; Software development; agile practice; case study; computational science; literature review; scientific computing;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2011.113
