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To what extent do academics in the climate science community use standard software engineering practices, such as documentation and unit testing, when writing code for their climate models or statistical analysis?
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To what extent do academics who do programming for academic research use standard software engineering practices, such as documentation and unit testing, to maintain their code?
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Vipul Naik
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I don't know the complete answer, but I'm sharing a few relevant links:
Scientists Are Not Software Engineers
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