DLR Software Engineering Guidelines

Abstract

This document describes the software engineering guidelines of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The target group of the guidelines are DLR scientists. The guidelines shall support them to find out the status of their developed software and to improve it with regard to good software development and documentation practice. The focus of the guidelines is on retaining knowledge and supporting sustainable software development in research. We publish these guidelines to support the general discussion about good software development practice in research.