This skill provides knowledge about software development best practices that will help scientists to develop high-quality scientific software.

• Apply the best practices from software engineering regarding programming.
• Apply programming best practices in order to develop robust and maintainable programs.

• SD2.1-B Integrated Development Environments
• SD2.2-B Debugging
• SD2.3-B Programming Idioms
• SD2.4-B Logging
• SD2.5-B Exception Handling
• SD2.6-B Coding Standards
• SD2.7-B Testing
• SD2.8-B Portability