• DataGrid Developers' Guide
• Various information an useful EDG documents
• Test plan
• Tools and techniques
• Reading list for new EDG developers

DataGrid Developers' Guide

• New: DataGrid Developers' Guide: pdf,  html
  This guide provides guidelines for developing code for the DataGrid project. Instructions for the editors can be found here.

Various information an useful EDG documents

• Information about the automatic build procedure: http://datagrid.in2p3.fr/index.php?id=autobuild
   
• An up to date set of statistics (#modules, #lines of code, languages used etc.) about the latest code release is available here: http://datagrid.in2p3.fr/autobuild/default/CodeStats.html
   
• Software release policy: http://edms.cern.ch/document/331457
  Software release plan: http://edms.cern.ch/document/333297
   
• Test and validation process (draft): http://edms.cern.ch/document/349248
   
• Quality Plan: http://edms.cern.ch/document/328806
   
• The WP2 proposed documents concerning building Java code and Webservices:
  http://edms.cern.ch/file/355684/2/build-system.pdf
  http://edms.cern.ch/file/358661/2/web-services.pdf

Test Plan

• WP1: http://edms.cern.ch/document/348450
• WP2: http://edms.cern.ch/document/345533
• WP3: http://edms.cern.ch/document/348523
• WP4: http://edms.cern.ch/document/348628
• WP5: http://edms.cern.ch/document/348428
• WP6-Iteam: (not yet provided)
• TSTG: http://edms.cern.ch/document/341943
• WP7: http://edms.cern.ch/document/348745
• Applications: (not yet pprovided)

Tools and Techniques

• Testing Framework software
• Valgrind a free software tool for checking memory accesses running under Linux, used by LHC, see LHC presentation.
   

Cern Software Developement Tools service (SDT) web pages and links to the products.

• Insure ++: Tool for error detection in C/C++ programs (e.g. memory leak). Runs on Linux, Solaris, Windows.

• Logiscope: Source code analyser (static analysis) as code complexity and test coverage for C/C++/Fortran (dynamic analysis). Runs on Solaris, windows.

Reading list for new EDG developer's

• Brief EDG overview paper:
  Perf 2002 paper: http://hep-proj-grid-tutorials.web.cern.ch/hep-proj-grid-tutorials/presentations/Perf2002Paper.pdf
   

• Tutorial:
  referably the person would attend the tutorial but they could start by reading the material and doing the exercises:
  http://hep-proj-grid-tutorials.web.cern.ch/hep-proj-grid-tutorials/dry.html
   

• EDG users guide and usage rules:
  http://marianne.in2p3.fr/datagrid/documentation/

• WP specific users guide(s)
  https://edms.cern.ch/document/368076
  

• EDG developers' guide:
  http://edms.cern.ch/document/358824

•  Work package specific documentation:
  WP architecture, test-pan, users guide(s) etc.