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

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 ...

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