Interfaces are key

The Scalability-Efficiency/Maintainability-Portability Trade-Off in Simulation Software Engineering: Examples and a Preliminary Systematic Literature Review

“…Paper [30] proposes a tool for the automatic extraction of a UML class diagram from an objectoriented FORTRAN code. Paper [31] proposes and shows how to define good interfaces for scientific software: "We talk about how those interfaces allow us to generate most code automatically as an expert would manually." In paper [32], the authors argue that using test-driven development, the library becomes easier to use and extend.…”

“…Only one paper was published as a technical report and, hence, definitely non-refereed. [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [27], [40], [30], [41], [31], [43], [32], [44] Empirical study without intervention 11 [18], [22], [24], [26], [15], [29], [19], [42], [20], [17], [21] Empirical study with intervention 5 [23], [38], [39], [25], [28] Opinion/philosophical paper 4 [13], [14], [2], [16] We also classified the included article in different types. We show the results in Tab.…”

“…Furthermore, we identified four different classes of contributions in the included articles as shown in Table IV. [18], [26], [16], [29], [19], [17], [21] Describe/analyze trade-off 5 [13], [22], [24], [2], [20] Solutions for single attributes 8 [33], [14], [23], [25], [15], [28], [30], [32] Solutions for trade-off 13 [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [27], [40], [41], [31], [42], [43], [44] The papers describing or analyzing single attributes concentrate on one or more of the quality attributes. We have seven such papers.…”