Paper Only – Presentation Cancelled
Cristina Marinovici, PNNL
Harold Kirkham
The ability to gather, analyze and make decisions based on real world data is changing nearly every field of human endeavor. These changes are particularly challenging for software engineers working in a scientific community, designing and developing large, complex systems. To avoid the creation of a communications gap (almost a language barrier), the software engineers should possess an ‘adaptive’ skill.
In the science and engineering research community, the software engineers must be responsible for more than creating mechanisms for storing and analyzing data. They must also develop a fundamental scientific and engineering understanding of the data. This paper looks at the many faces that a software engineer should have: developer, domain expert, business analyst, security expert, project manager, tester, user experience professional, etc. In authors’ opinion, the conclusions drawn while developing a power-systems scientific software could be extended to describe the process of any software development project, and thus guide all current and future developers.
