[Bessig] BESSIG: Testing scientific code, Wed 9/18, 4:00 PM, Outlook

[Anne Wilson]

Hi BESSIG,

I hope this finds you all safe and dry on this watery day.

Our September meeting is next Wednesday.   Hopefully life will be fairly 
normal by then.   Please join us at the Outlook for:

"Strategies, motivations, and influencing adoption of testing for 
scientific code"

by Ian Truslove, Erik Jasiak, (NSIDC)

Computation and programming are increasingly inescapable in modern Earth 
Sciences, but scientists and researchers receive little or no formal 
software engineering or programming training.  At the same time, 
research into the reproducibility of other academic papers exposing 
disappointingly low rates of repeatability and high-profile retractions 
due to computational or data errors increase the onus on researchers to 
write repeatable, reliable, even reusable programs; in other words, 
"write better code".

The complete abstract and other information is at the web site: 
http://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/BESSIG/2013/09/12/BESSIG+Meeting+Wed%2C+Sep+18%2C+4+-+6+PM

Hope to see you there!

Anne