Some resources about scientific software quality

Some time ago I collected these links about scientific software quality and testing for a Barcelona Supercomputing Center winter retreat.

I hope they could be useful for people interested in introducing better practices in scientific software.

• Software exoskeletons
• Computational science: ...Error …why scientific programming does not compute.
• The Challenge of Testing Scientific Software
• How Do Scientists Develop and Use Scientific Software?
• Understanding the High-Performance-Computing Community: A Software Engineer’s Perspective
• Assessing the Quality of Scientific Software
• Where’s the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing?
• Software Carpentry

Beware, it might be very hard or even useless to directly apply some of industry's good practices in this field.

I think it would be necessary to adapt and refine many of them to cater for the special needs of the scientific software community.

Software Carpentry version 4

Some time ago I posted about Software Carpentry.

Software carpentry is a wonderful initiative to teach scientists and engineers the concepts, skills, and tools that will help them use and build software more productively.

I recently revisited the Software Carpentry site, and they have released the version 4.

These are the lectures in this last version:

• Version Control
• The Shell
• Python
• Testing
• Sets and Dictionaries
• Regular Expressions
• Databases
• Classes and Objects
• Program Design
• Systems Programming
• Make
• Matrix Programming
• MATLAB
• Multimedia Programming
• Spreadsheets
• Essays
• Recommended Reading
• Glossary

All the lectures are freely available under a Creative Commons license.

Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python

Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python
Un curso bastante bueno de Python que toca temas más avanzados que los que aparecen en los cursos que ya había posteado, ver Python en Garajeando.

Software Carpentry

Encontré este sitio: Software Carpentry en el que explican muchas cosas muy útiles para desarrollar software.