Introduction

The priorities for W-SLDA Toolkit developers are as follow (from highest to lowest):

1. Correctness of computation.
2. Performace.
3. User-friendly interface.

The highest priority is computation correctness, which is the fundamental issue in computational physics.

Links to interesting articles related to code & results quality

• Does your code stand up to scrutiny?
• David A. W. Soergel, Rampant software errors may undermine scientific results
• Zeeya Merali, Computational science: ...Error
• Jeffrey M. Perkel, How to fix your scientific coding errors