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NPARC Alliance Guidelines Documents
The following documents were created for use by the NPARC Alliance
during software development projects.
- Programming Guidelines for
NPARC Alliance Software Development (PDF, 132K, 11 pages)
- Programming Guidelines for
NPARC Alliance Software Development (HTML)
- This document describes the programming guidelines to be used
during NPARC Alliance software development projects.
It deals almost exclusively with Fortran 90 since most
NPARC Alliance software is written in that language,
but some parts are also applicable to C.
- Documentation Guidelines for
NPARC Alliance Software Development (PDF, 108K, 5 pages)
- Documentation Guidelines for
NPARC Alliance Software Development (HTML)
- This document describes the guidelines to be used when writing
documentation during NPARC Alliance software development projects.
- Testing Guidelines for
NPARC Alliance Software Development (PDF, 27K, 11 pages)
- Testing Guidelines for
NPARC Alliance Software Development (HTML)
- This document describes testing guidelines for NPARC Alliance
software development efforts.
It was written for use during the Wind-US development project,
but with some modifications could be applicable to other
software development efforts.
It is intended for use during the development phase, and provides
guidelines for evaluating the overall functionality of the
software, and the functionality of specific features.
The PDF documents listed above are designed to be printed.
They may be viewed and/or printed using a variety of freely available
software packages, including
Acrobat
Reader 
,
GhostScript
, and
and xpdf
.
The HTML versions of the documents are designed for interactive use.
The NPARC Alliance Guidelines Documents
in HTML form are also available for installation on a local system.
This is a gzip'ed tar file (21K, 93K gunzip'ed), and may be downloaded
by clicking on the link while holding down the shift key, assuming your
browser supports this capability.
A dialogue box will appear for you to specify the directory and file name.
To unpack the contents, do
gunzip -c guidelines.tar.gz | tar xvf -
The files will be extracted and stored in the directory guidelines.
Point your browser to the local file guidelines/index.html to
display the NPARC Alliance Guidelines Documents home page.
Note that this does not include the PDF forms of the documents.
Note also that some links, to other manuals, etc., may not work.
Last updated 11 Mar 2009