Boisvert R. Quality of Numerical Software. Assessment and Enhancement 1997 torrent

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Front Matter
Is numerical software relevant? Is it too late to worry about quality?
The T-experiments: errors in scientific software
If software quality is a perception, how do we measure it?
Improving quality through user-centered design
A functional approach to software reliability modeling
Quality of service and scientific workflows
Improving the quality of software quality determination processes
Front Matter
Testing linear algebra software
Matrix Market: a web resource for test matrix collections
A methodology for testing classes of approximation and optimization software
Evaluation of minimization software based on performance profile techniques
Testing functions of one and two arguments
A proposed software test service for special functions
The evaluation of numerical software for delay differential equations
Front Matter
Designing and building a new numerical library in Fortran 90
Two approaches to exception handling in Fortran.
Developing ODE software in new computing environments
Case studies on the development of ScaLAPACK and the NAG Numerical PVM Library
Why we couldn’t use numerical libraries for PETSc
Automatic parallel program generation for finite element analysis
Front Matter
Network-based scientific computation via Inferno
Real Inferno
The XSC tools for extended scientific computing
Front Matter
Automatic differentiation and numerical software design
Is nonnormality a serious computational difficulty in practice?
Reliability of local error control algorithms for initial value ordinary differential equations
Efficiency of global adaptive quadrature
Software testing and evaluation in large-scale scientific applications
The visual diagnosis on numerical calculation of PDE problems and experiments
Some fundamental limitations of mathematical software revealed by the calculation of spacetime curvature
Development of efficient general purpose Monte Carlo codes used in nuclear engineering
New resource-sparing grid methods for solving the problems of mathematical physics
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The Quality of Numerical Software: Assessment and Enhancement