Quality of Numerical Software
Assessment and enhancement
Editors: Boisvert, Ronald F. (Ed.)
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Numerical software is central to our computerized society. It is used to control aeroplanes and bridges, operate manufacturing lines, control power plants and refineries, and analyse financial markets. Such software must be accurate, reliable, robust, efficient, easy to use, maintainable and adaptable. Quality assessment and control of numerical software is still not well understood. Although measurement is a key element, it remains difficult to assess many components of software quality and to evaluate the trade-offs between them. Fortunately, as numerical software is built upon a long established foundation of mathematical and computational knowledge, there is great potential for dramatic breakthroughs. This volume will address enabling techniques and tools such as benchmarks, testing methodologies, quality standards, metrics, and accuracy control mechanisms, and their application to software for differential equations, linear algebra, data analysis, as well as the evaluation of integrals, derivatives and elementary and special functions.
- Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Is numerical software relevant? Is it too late to worry about quality?
Pages 3-11
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The T-experiments: errors in scientific software
Pages 12-31
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If software quality is a perception, how do we measure it?
Pages 32-43
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Improving quality through user-centered design
Pages 44-60
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A functional approach to software reliability modeling
Pages 61-76
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Quality of Numerical Software
- Book Subtitle
- Assessment and enhancement
- Editors
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- Ronald F. Boisvert
- Series Title
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
- Copyright
- 1997
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-5041-2940-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-5041-2940-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-412-80530-1
- Series ISSN
- 1868-4238
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 384
- Topics
