Important Steps in Simulation and Model Building
7. provide adequate and on-going documentation
- In general, programmers hate to document. (They love to program!)
- What we can do?
- use self-documenting language
- insist on built-in user instructions (help screens)
- set (or insist) standards for coding style
8. develop a plan for adequate model verification
- Did we get the ``right answers"? (NO SUCH THING!)
- Simulation provides something that no other technique does:
- Step by step tracing of the model execution.
- This provides a very natural way of checking the internal consistency of the model.