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Generating Software for Well-Understood Domains
Jacques Carette, Spencer Smith, Jason Balaci
Current software development is often quite code-centric and aimed at short-term deliverables, due to various contextual forces (such as the need for new revenue streams from many…
Long-Term Productivity Based on Science, not Preference
Spencer Smith, Jacques Carette
This position paper argues that decisions on processes, tools, techniques and software artifacts (such as user manuals, unit tests, design documents and code) for scientific softwa…
Methodology for Assessing the State of the Practice for Domain X
Spencer Smith, Jacques Carette, Peter Michalski +2
To improve software development methods and tools for research software, we first need to understand the current state of the practice. Therefore, we have developed a methodology f…
Long-term Productivity for Long-term Impact
Spencer Smith, Jacques Carette
We present a new conceptual definition of 'productivity' for sustainably developing research software. Existing definitions are flawed as they are short-term biased, thus devaluing…
Statistical Software for Psychology: Comparing Development Practices Between CRAN and Other Communities
Spencer Smith, Yue Sun, Jacques Carette
Different communities rely heavily on software, but use quite different software development practices. {\bf Objective}: We wanted to measure the state of the practice in the area…
State of the Practice for GIS Software
W. Spencer Smith, Adam Lazzarato, Jacques Carette
We present a reproducible method to analyze the state of software development practices in a given scientific domain and apply this method to Geographic Information Systems (GIS).…