COMMONALITY AND REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS FOR MESH GENERATING SOFTWARE

W. Spencer Smith and Chien-Hsien Chen

Abstract
This paper presents a proposal to improve the software quality of mesh generators, and by extension other scientific computation systems, by applying software engineering methodologies, in particular commonality and requirements analysis. The case study presented shows that mesh generating systems are well suited to development as a program family and that scientific computing problems need a requirements template tailored to this type of system.