So the argument is that determining the correctness of the simulation is so complex that any kind of automated tests won't matter. The rebuttal makes a couple

So the argument is that determining the correctness of the simulation is so complex that any kind of automated tests won't matter. The rebuttal makes a couple of statements about how scientists spend their time to verify their work: > Scientific software tends to be validated in a more ad hoc way. This is a domain-specific norm, not a matter of competence. > Practically every scientist I know spends most of their time checking their results rather than coding, and I sincerely doubt that the Imperial group is any different. I wonder if the team could iterate more quickly if some of these ad hoc validations were automated.