1st Edition
Software Development A Handbook for Computational Scientists
Part I: The ecosystem
1. Context and environment
Part II: Principles and doctrines
2. Artefact organisation
3. Artefact quality
4. Behaviour
Part III: Techniques
5. Collaborate and communicate
6. Branching and merging
7. Code review
8. Debugging
9. Tests
10. Defensive programming
11. Ingredients of good documentation and architecture descriptions
12. How to write documentation and architecture documents
Part IV: Structure and organisation
13. Workflows
14. Organise your day-to-day work
15. Interacting with stakeholders
16. Closing remarks
Biography
Tobias Weinzierl is Professor of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University in the UK, where he leads the Scientific Computing research group and serves as Director of Durham's Institute for Data Science (IDAS). Tobias earned a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) as well as a habilitation in Computer Science from Technische Universität München (TUM). His research centres on the fundamental question of how to translate state-of-the-art algorithms - e.g. multigrid, higher-order discontinuous Galerkin, and smoothed-particle hydrodynamics into fast code that leverages modern architectures and pushes the frontiers of computational insight.
