Title: Software Engineering? Author: James Taylor

1. software engineering?

2. Process!

3. ensure quality and reliability

4. breaks down in most real
world circumstances...

5. ...like science

6. Agile!

7. culture of independence

8. Architects?
Hackers?
Scientists?

9. is most computational science
even science at all?

10. results are not enough

11. quality!
reproducibility!

12. but we get away with it
because computational
science is hard

13. good computational science
requires some good software
engineering

14. correctness, reproducibility

15. testing, version and build
control, abstraction and
modularity, designing for and
encouraging reuse

16. how do we motivate this?

17. (the carrot)

18. productivity

19. open source?

20. think small

21. balance

22. supporting good habits

23. (the stick)

24. expectations

25. where is our
“marketplace of ideas”

26. culture