Segal, Judith
(2008).
Scientists and software engineers: A tale of two cultures.
In: Proceedings of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, PPIG 08, 10-12- September 2008, University of Lancaster, UK.
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Abstract
The two cultures of the title are those observed in my field studies: the culture of scientists (financial
mathematicians, earth and planetary scientists, and molecular biologists) developing their own software, and the culture of software engineers developing scientific software. In this paper, I shall describe some problems arising when scientists and software engineers come together to develop scientific software and discuss how these problems may be ascribed to their two different cultures.
| Item Type: |
Conference Item
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| ISBN: |
1-86220-215-X, 978-1-86220-215-3 |
| Extra Information: |
Proceedings: 20th annual meeting of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group; Lancaster, United Kingdom; September 10-12 2008 |
| Keywords: |
POP-I C Ill-defined problems; POP-II A End-users; POP �II C Working practices; POP-V B Case studies; |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: |
Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
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| Item ID: |
17671 |
| Depositing User: |
Judith Segal
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| Date Deposited: |
13 Jul 2009 14:28 |
| Last Modified: |
06 Dec 2010 17:27 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/17671 |
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