S E S P

Software Engineering Support Programme

*The Software
Engineering Group

Computational Science & Engineering
  STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

The Software Engineering Support Programme (SESP) is an EPSRC support activity to provide and encourage the use of up-to-date software engineering techniques and tools in software development within computational science and engineering. For more information click here.

News

Jan 2009 Ever wanted on-the-fly syntax checking for Fortran? Now, if you use (x)emacs you can with Flymake minor mode! Take a look at the website.
Sept 2008 Update Update of Understand for Fortran to version 2.0. This version cannot open old projects but there is a conversion option under the file menu. The last build of version 1.4 is also still available. Contact David Worth (see below) for details.
July 2008
 Wokshop on CCPForge and svn at the Daresbury Laboratory
Feb 2008 Update Updates to plusFORT and FORCHECK
Jan 2008 New SESP Tools Workshop at Manchester Metropolitan University
Report on State of the Art in Object Oriented Programming with Fortran ( html , pdf,  ps )
Feb 2007 Update Update to Understand for Fortran - Version 1.4 (389)
Jan 2007 New Report on Thoughts on using the Features of Fortan 95 (html, pdf, ps)
Oct 2006  VTune version 8.0.2 installed on hsl.  The 8.0.2 release adds many new features to 8.0 including advice from the compiler, powerful user interface improvements and a native Eclipse GUI for Intel® Itanium® Architecture.  It also updates the 8.0.1 release by adding support for the latest Intel® processors (see release notes for details).
Sept 2006
Added notes on coverage analysis for Fortran 95 with g95 and gcov4.
July 2006
Latest Software Tools Workshop - Held on 18th July at the Daresbury Laboratory
June 2006
Notes on using tools on QA server (html, doc).
June 2006
Fortran unit testing framework fUnit (version 0.1.2) added to tool set. An example of unit testing with fUnit is shown here.
May 2006 Intel's Performance analysis tool VTune (version 8.0) added to tool set. Details of how to run the tool on the SEG servers can be found here.

Server Access

For access to the SESP Tools server please e-mail Prof Chris Greenough (c.greenough@rl.ac.uk) or Dr David Worth (d.j.worth@rl.ac.uk) giving details of the software you are developing and which tools you would like to use.

Please address all other enquiries about SESP to:


 Prof Chris Greenough
Software Engineering Group
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
DIDCOT OX11 0QX
+44 (0) 1235 445307
+44 (0) 1235 446626
c.greenough@rl.ac.uk