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They may not unit test it, in the software development sense, but they probably hand-check a new bit of calculation code on a few data points before setting it
by jonhendry 16y ago
They may not unit test it, in the software development sense, but they probably hand-check a new bit of calculation code on a few data points before setting it loose on a whole data set.
- nervechannel 16y agoYes, or sometimes even less rigour than this: run some data and see if the results "look right". This is the standard procedure for when you've developed a complex algorithm to do something novel, and actually working through it by hand would take hours. I should know, this is how I used to do it before I knew better, and as a result one of my published papers has (very slight) numerical errors in.