CAS 741/CSE 741 Development of Scientific Computing Software

This course presents the basic principles of software development for reliable scientific and engineering software. Using example applications, a systematic process is given for the development and documentation of requirements, system design, module design, implementation, testing and inspection.

Summary of Folder Structure and File Contents

Course Outline

• course outline

Lectures

• lecture material
• roughly organized following the typical "v-model" documentation (req, test, des)
• review of SE for SC

BlankProjectTemplate

• starting point for each project
• separate template for single scientific application versus family of computing libraries

ToolTutorials

• tutorials on doxygen, git and GitLab, make, unit testing and LaTeX

Examples

• examples of SC projects
• additional examples available on-line (as pointed to in the lecture notes)

Reference Material

• papers discussed during the term
• all citations are in a BibTeX file called Reference.bib
• Format of citation labels and filenames is the AuthorYear style (https://www.e-education.psu.edu/styleforstudents/c5_p11.html)