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metRology Software Project

Ongoing
The goal of the metRology software project is to provide a set of specialized functions for statistical metrology as a package for the R software environment

metRology for Microsoft Excel

Ongoing
The goal of the metRology for Microsoft Excel* software project is to provide a convenient user interface using Microsoft Excel for some of the specialized

Publications

Impact of Code Complexity On Software Analysis

Author(s)
Charles D. De Oliveira, Elizabeth Fong, Paul E. Black
The Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) team studied thousands of warnings from static analyzers. Tools have difficulty distinguishing

Encouraging and Enabling Mutual Ownership in a RSE Community of Practice

Author(s)
Miranda Mundt, Jonathan Bisila, Jonathan E. Guyer, Daniel Howard, Daniel S. Katz, Reed Milewicz, Henry Schreiner, Joshua Teves, Chris Wiswell
The explosion of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) in the United States created the opportunity to form communities of practice (CoP), groups which share a

Metamorphic Testing for Hybrid Simulation Validation

Author(s)
Mohammed Farhan, Caroline Krejci, Megan Olsen, M S Raunak
Proper validation of a simulation model is essential to have confidence on its accuracy and credibility. However, many of the most effective approaches for

Software

The NIST ABACUS

Providing automated, virtual assistance in statistics for chemical analysis The NIST ABACUS (App for Bayesian Analysis of Chemical quantities Using Shiny) is an

Biometric Testing Software

NIST/ITL has had a long history of supporting biometric data interchange formats by developing conformance testing software. These suites of software are