Scientific Software Development: Qualitative background for a model

Abstract

In spite of different scientific conferences and journals report software like research outcomes, til de moment, there are few antecedents about software life cycles for supporting scientific software development. As far as we have looked for, the software development methodologies in this domain are coarse grain ones, and there is no empirical research supporting them. In this paper, We propose a software lifecycle for the development of scientific software. To obtain this model we have made a fusion of two existing coarse grain proposals and, after that, We have conducted a case study research, on a bibliometric research project, which has allowed to get a refined software process for scientific software.