Scientists and software engineers: A tale of two cultures

Segal, Judith (2008). Scientists and software engineers: A tale of two cultures. In: PPIG 2008: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Pschology of Programming Interest Group (Buckley, Jim; Rooksby, John and Bednarik, Roman eds.), Lancaster University, 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.

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• Item ORO ID
• 17671
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• 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 or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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• • http://www.ppig.org/(Research Group)
• Depositing User
• Judith Segal