Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 About this Document
  • 1.2 Supplementary Information
  • 1.3 Acknowledgments
  
  
• 2 Groups and Roles in ESMF Development
  • 2.1 Core Team
    • 2.1.1 Core Team Roles
  • 2.2 Joint Specification Team (JST)
  • 2.3 Change Review Board (CRB)
  • 2.4 Quality Assurance Responsibilities
  
  
• 3 Collaboration Environment and Communication
  • 3.1 Mailing Lists
  • 3.2 Meetings and Telecons
  • 3.3 SourceForge Open Source Development Environment
    • 3.3.1 The Main ESMF Site and Repository
    • 3.3.2 The ESMF Contributions Site and Repository
  
  
• 4 Processes
  • 4.1 Software Process Model
  • 4.2 ESMF Process History
    • 4.2.1 Software Concept
    • 4.2.2 Requirements Analysis
    • 4.2.3 Architectural Design
  • 4.3 Ongoing Development
    • 4.3.1 Telecon Etiquette
    • 4.3.2 Design Reviews
    • 4.3.3 Implementation and Test Before Internal Release
    • 4.3.4 Implementation and Test Before Public Release
    • 4.3.5 Code Check-In
    • 4.3.6 Code Reviews
    • 4.3.7 Releases
    • 4.3.8 Backups
  • 4.4 Testing and Validation
    • 4.4.1 Unit Tests
    • 4.4.2 Examples
    • 4.4.3 System Tests
    • 4.4.4 Test Harness
    • 4.4.5 Use Test Cases (UTCs)
    • 4.4.6 Beta Testing
    • 4.4.7 Automated Regression Tests
    • 4.4.8 Investigating Test Failures
    • 4.4.9 Building the Documentation
    • 4.4.10 Testing for Releases
  • 4.5 User Support
    • 4.5.1 Roles
    • 4.5.2 Support Categories
    • 4.5.3 Summary Work Flow
    • 4.5.4 General Guidelines for Handling Tickets
    • 4.5.5 esmf_support@ucar.edu Mail Archives
    • 4.5.6 INFO:Code (subject) mail messages
    • 4.5.7 freeCRM
    • 4.5.8 Annual Code Contact
    • 4.5.9 Dealing with Applications that use ESMF
  
  
• 5 Apps
• 6 Test Harness
  • 6.1 Specifying Test Harness Tests
  • 6.2 Running Test Harness Tests as Part of Unit Tests
  • 6.3 Invoking a Single Test Harness Test Case Using gmake
  • 6.4 Invoking a Single Test Harness Test Case from the Command Line
  • 6.5 Top Level Configuration File
    • 6.5.1 Problem descriptor file
    • 6.5.2 Problem descriptor string syntax
    • 6.5.3 General Data Structures
    • 6.5.4 Specifier files
    • 6.5.5 Grid Specification
    • 6.5.6 Distribution Specification
    • 6.5.7 Class Specification
  • 6.6 Reporting test results
  
  
• 7 Conventions
  • 7.1 Docs: Code and Documentation Templates and Associated Scripts
    • 7.1.1 Documentation Generation Script
    • 7.1.2 Code Generation Scripts
  • 7.2 Docs: Documentation Guidelines and Conventions
    • 7.2.1 Accessibility
    • 7.2.2 File format
    • 7.2.3 Typeface and Diagram Conventions
    • 7.2.4 Style Rules for L^ATEX
  • 7.3 Docs: Performance Report Conventions
  • 7.4 Docs: Reference Manual Conventions
    • 7.4.1 Description, Use and Examples, and Other Introductory Sections
    • 7.4.2 Examples Sections
    • 7.4.3 Flags and Options Sections
    • 7.4.4 Class API Sections
  • 7.5 Code: Method Conventions
    • 7.5.1 Standard Method Names
    • 7.5.2 Use of *Set and *Get
    • 7.5.3 Use of Is* and Has*
    • 7.5.4 Functions vs. Subroutines
    • 7.5.5 Source and Destination Ordering
  • 7.6 Code: Argument Conventions
    • 7.6.1 Standard Variable Names
    • 7.6.2 Use of Is* and Has*
    • 7.6.3 Variable Capitalization
    • 7.6.4 Variables Associated with Options
    • 7.6.5 Variables Having Logical Data Type
    • 7.6.6 Arguments which are Arrays
    • 7.6.7 Arguments which are Pointers
  • 7.7 Code: File Rules
    • 7.7.1 Version Identification
    • 7.7.2 License and Copyright Information
    • 7.7.3 TODO: Reminder
    • 7.7.4 FILENAME Macros
  • 7.8 Code: Style Rules for Source Code
  • 7.9 Code: Error Handling Conventions
    • 7.9.1 Objectives
    • 7.9.2 Approach
    • 7.9.3 Error Masking
    • 7.9.4 Example (pre-review method)
    • 7.9.5 Example (post-review method)
    • 7.9.6 Memory Allocation Checking
  • 7.10 Initialization Standardization Instructions
    • 7.10.1 Overview
    • 7.10.2 Instructions
    • 7.10.3 Module
    • 7.10.4 Shallow Class
    • 7.10.5 Deep Class
    • 7.10.6 Parameter Class
    • 7.10.7 Subroutine
    • 7.10.8 ESMF Class Types
  • 7.11 Code: Data Type Consistency Guidelines
    • 7.11.1 Use ESMF names for data types in C and ESMF data kinds in Fortran
    • 7.11.2 Fortran
    • 7.11.3 C and C++
    • 7.11.4 ESMF_TypeKind_Flag “labels”: When knowing the data type/kind is necessary
    • 7.11.5 Guidelines for Fortran-C Interfaces
  • 7.12 Code: Optional Argument Conventions for the C/C++ API
    • 7.12.1 Overview
    • 7.12.2 Approach
    • 7.12.3 Internal Macros for Processing the Optional Argument List
    • 7.12.4 Parsing the Optional Argument List
  • 7.13 Code: Makefile Conventions
    • 7.13.1 Code Building Rules
    • 7.13.2 Document Building Rules
    • 7.13.3 Include Files
  • 7.14 Preprocessor Usage
    • 7.14.1 Using the Preprocessor For Generic Fortran Code
    • 7.14.2 System Dependent Strategy Using Preprocessor
  • 7.15 ESMF Data Type Autopromotion Support Policy and Guide
    • 7.15.1 How We Arrived at This Autopromotion Support Policy
  • 7.16 Scripts: Script Coding Standard
    • 7.16.1 Content Rules
  • 7.17 Lang: Interlanguage Coding Conventions
    • 7.17.1 Optional Arguments Across Language Interfaces
  • 7.18 Lang: Fortran Coding Standard
    • 7.18.1 Content Rules
    • 7.18.2 Style Rules
  • 7.19 Lang: C/C++ Coding Standard
  • 7.20 Repo: Source Code Naming and Tagging Conventions
    • 7.20.1 Public Releases
    • 7.20.2 Internal Releases
  • 7.21 Data Management Conventions
  
  
• 8 Tracking and Metrics
  • 8.1 Release Schedule
  • 8.2 Task List
  • 8.3 Trackers
    • 8.3.1 Setting Ticket Priorities
    • 8.3.2 Labeling Tickets Longer than 2 Weeks
    • 8.3.3 Estimating Ticket Completion Time
    • 8.3.4 Labeling Tickets with Time Estimates
    • 8.3.5 Cross-Referencing the Task List and Trackers
    • 8.3.6 Summary
    • 8.3.7 Types of Trackers
  • 8.4 Metrics
    • 8.4.1 Unit and System Tests Coverage
    • 8.4.2 ESMF Requirements Coverage
    • 8.4.3 Source Lines of Code, SLOC
  
  
• 9 Policies
  • 9.1 External Software Libraries
  • 9.2 Graphics Packages
  
  
• Bibliography