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.