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8 Computingin SCienCe & engineering

Sotw Enginingo Computtionl Scincnd Engining

Th hs bn gowing intst inppling ppopit sotw ngi-ning pctics to th dlopmnto computtionl scinc nd ngi-

ning (CSE) sotw. Rcnt sch showstwo impotnt tnds: Fist, in most css, th

dlopmnt o CSE sotw dosnt ollow t-ditionl sotw ngining bst pctics. Sc-ond, in mn css, xisting sotw nginingbst pctics nt pplicbl to CSE sotw

without signicntl tiloing nd dpting thm.Ths two tnds cll ltd to ch othnd th must b ddssd to impo both thpoductiit o CSE sotw dlopmnt ndth libilit o CSE sotw. Unotuntl,histoicll th h onl bn smll numbo popl with nough xptis nd intst in

both CSE sotw dlopmnt nd tditionl

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Jeffrey C. Carver

University of Alabama

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th lg mount o dt nd ticts tht sultom computtionl simultions.

Th scond ticl, Wht Do W Know boutScintic Sotw Dlopmnts Agil Pctics?b Mgnus Thostin Sltholt nd his couthos,is littu iw tht instigts th us ogil sotw-dlopmnt mthods o scin-

tic sotw. Oth schs h positd thtgil ppochs cn b good t o th dlop-mnt o scintic sotw. This ticl xminstht clim in mo dtil.

Th thid ticl, Sstm Tsting ScinticFmwok Using Rgssion-Tst Enion-mnt, b Hn n Rmml nd h couthos,instigts spciic phs o th sotw-dlopmnt li ccl, sstm tsting. This ticldscibs th nd o sstm tsting in scinticnionmnt nd illustts th concpts with nxmpl.

Finll, th lst ticl, This Isnt You PntsFotn: Mnging C++ Objcts with ModnFotn b Dmin Rouson nd his couthos,ocuss on th spcic poblm tht occus whnintc Fotn cod cts C++ objcts. Al-loction nd dlloction o ths objcts isntstightowd. This ticl poids solutiono mnging tht complxit.

Mo dtils bout th wokshop,long with th ull list o ppspsntd, ilbl t www.cs.u.du/~SECSE11. Th wbsit

lso poids links to pious s wokshops.I ou h thoughts on how to btt intgt

ppopit sotw ngining pctics intoCSE dlopmnt o qustions bout th wok-shop sis, o i ou would lik uth ino-mtion, I look owd to hing om ou [email protected].

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I would like to thank the following reviewerswho provided input during the paper review and

selection process: Roscoe Bartlett, Oak Ridge Na-

tional Laboratories (US); Diane Kelly, Royal Military

College (Canada); Lorin Hochstein, ISI (US); and

Judith Segal, The Open University (UK).

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Software Engineering for Computational Science

and Engineering, Proc. 33rd Intl Conf. Software

Eng., IEEE CS, 2011, pp. 12261227.

2. J.C. Carver, Report from the Second International

Workshop on Software Engineering for Computa-

tional Science and Engineering (SE-CSE09), Comput-

ing in Science & Eng., vol. 11, no. 6, 2009, pp. 1419.

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Software Engineering for Computational Science &

Engineering, Computing in Science & Eng., vol. 11,

no. 2, 2009, pp. 711.

4. D.E. Post and R.P. Kendall, Software Project

Management and Quality Engineering Practices for

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Je ffrey C. Carver is an assistant professor in the

Department of Computer Science at the University

of Alabama. His research interests include empiri-

cal software engineering, software engineering for

computational science and engineering, qualitative

methods for software engineering, and human fac-

tors in software engineering. Carver has a PhD in

computer science from the University of Maryland.

Contact him at [email protected]. He is a senior

member of IEEE and ACM.

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