About SoftEng
The Software Engineering Group ( SoftEng ) is part of the Computational Science and Engineering Department of the Science and Technology Facilities Council and is based in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
SoftEng has been involved in the development of numerical software for computational physics and the deployment of software engineering techniques for many years.
Its current research and development focus is on the use of advanced but pragmatic software engineering techniques to improve software quality and productivity in computational science and engineering.
Current Activities
- CCPForge - Administration, Maintenance and Development
- Software Engineering Support Programme
- Technology and software for agent-based simulations
Latest news
- Update to Understand source code investigation software The latest version of Understand from Scientific Toolworks has been installed on the SESP server. Understand is a source code ... Posted on March 5, 2010
Latest blog posts
- Software Preservation hand-in-hand with Software Quality I have recently attended a Software Preservation Workshop organised by the Software Sustainiability Institute (SSI - http://www.software.ac.uk). This is my take on some of the discussion relevant to computational science ...
- Using ggcov with Fortran Coverage testing is all about knowing how much of your code has been tested with the test sets. With the gcc based compilers the gcov tool is a natural choice ...
Latest publication
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Profiling Tutorial: A simple program
This is a short tutorial document for profiling tools GNU gprof and Intel’s VTune. It uses a simple array based program to illustrate the basics of performance profiling with these ...
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