Scientific software design
Subtitle: the object-oriented way
By: Damian Rouson, Jim Xia, Xiaofeng Xu
Contributors: Xia, Jim, 1970-; Xu, Xiaofeng, 1972-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780521888134
Subjects: Science; Engineering; Data processing; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General); Software engineering
Description: "This book concerns software design. Although many current discussions of scientific programming focus on scalable performance, this book focuses on scalable design. The authors analyze how the structure of a package determines its developmental complexity according to such measures as bug search times and documentation information content. The work presents arguments for why these issues impact solution cost and time more than does scalable performance. The final chapter explores the question of scalable execution and it shows how scalable design relates to scalable execution. The book's focus is on program organization, which has received considerable attention in the broader software engineering community, where graphical description standards for modeling software structure and behavior have been developed by computer scientists. These discussions might be enriched by engineers who write scientific codes. This book aims to bring such scientific programmers into discussion with computer scientists. The authors do so by introducing object-oriented software design patterns in the context of scientific simulation"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.