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Automatic Documentation of the Development of Numerical Models for Scientific Applications using Specific Revision Control

Authors:
Martin Zinner
Karsten Rink
René Jäkel
Kim Feldhoff
Richard Grunzke
Thomas Fischer
Rui Song
Marc Walther
Thomas Jejkal
Olaf Kolditz
Wolfgang E. Nagel

Keywords: Software development; Automatic generation of documentation; Revision control; Backup and Restore; Metadata; Improvement of research environment; Support of research process.

Abstract:
As software becomes increasingly complex, automatic documentation of the development is becoming ever more important. In this paper, we present a novel, general strategy to build a revision control system of the development of numerical models for scientific applications. We set up a formal methodology of the strategy and show the consistency, correctness, and usefulness of the presented strategy to automatically generate a documentation for the evolution of the model.

Pages: 18 to 27

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: October 8, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-590-6

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from October 8, 2017 to October 12, 2017