Most programs today are written not by professional software developers, but by people with
expertise in other domains working towards goals for which they need computational …

Context Scientific software plays an important role in critical decision making, for example
making weather predictions based on climate models, and computation of evidence for …

How do people ideate through code? Using semi-structured interviews and a survey, we
studied data scientists who program, often with small scripts, to experiment with data. These …

Data science has been growing in prominence across both academia and industry, but there
is still little formal consensus about how to teach it. Many people who currently teach data …

Despite the increasing importance of in silico experiments to the scientific discovery process,
state-of-the-art software engineering practices are rarely adopted in computational science …

Software plays an increasingly critical role in science, including data analysis, simulations,
and managing workflows. Unlike other technologies supporting science, software can be …

Not all scientific computing is high-performance computing—the variety of scientific software
is huge. Such software might be complex simulation software developed and running on a …

End-user software engineering (EUSE) is a research area that aims to invent new kinds of
technologies that collaborate with end users to improve the quality of their software. The …

Software for scientific research purposes has received increased attention in recent years.
Case studies have noted development practices, limitations, and problems in the …

Abstract enterprise system (ES) software is often supplemented independently by end users
who develop personal solutions that establish connections between the required business …