Dealing with Risk in Scientific Software Development

  • Authors:
  • Rebecca Sanders;Diane Kelly

  • Affiliations:
  • Queen's University, Kingston;Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The development of scientific software involves risk in the underlying theory, its implementation, and its use. Through a series of interviews, the authors explored how research scientists at two Canadian universities developed their software. These interviews indicated that the scientists used a set of strategies to address risk. They also suggested where the software engineering community could perform research focused on specific problems faced by scientific software developers.