Title :
Documentation practices in scientific software development
Author :
Pawlik, Aleksandra ; Segal, J. ; Petre, Marian
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Open Univ., Milton Keynes, UK
Abstract :
This paper focuses on documentation practices in scientific software development and takes into account two perspectives: that of scientists who develop software (scientists-developers) and of those scientists who use it. We describe documentation practices of scientists-developers. We also explore the role of users´ community in scientific software documentation. We compare our findings to studies about documentation practices of professional software developers and discuss how production of documentation in scientific software development can be supported.
Keywords :
natural sciences computing; software engineering; system documentation; documentation practices; professional software developers; scientific software development; scientific software documentation; scientists-developers; Communities; Documentation; Google; Interviews; Manuals; Programming; Software; documentation; empirical study; end-user development; scientific software development;
Conference_Titel :
Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), 2012 5th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1823-5
DOI :
10.1109/CHASE.2012.6223004
