Do physicists need software engineering?

F. James
1986 Computer Physics Communications  
We attempt to describe the situation in software development which led to the invention of various techniques now known collectively as Software Engineering. This in turn leads us to consider to what extent real computer users, and in particular computational physicists, could profit from the use of these techniques.
doi:10.1016/0010-4655(86)90065-2 fatcat:iw5fse6n4jhmjj3x2ujmgs24xu