Good practice guide for ESP-r developers

This report sets out to be a ‘good practice guide’ for researchers involved in the development of the ESP-r building and plant simulation environment, as this is currently under development at various research centres throughout Europe. After an introduction to the background for this work, the current status with respect to the organisational structure surrounding ESP-r is elaborated. Then the report continues with describing good practice procedures for code control, and with elaborating good practice guidelines and an example with respect to style and documenting of the coding itself. Finally there is a chapter on possible Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools which may prove helpful for maintaining good practice.