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Proceedings of eSim 2001: 1st Conference of IBPSA-Canada

     

DEVELOPING PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY CONTROL APPROACHES FOR IMPROVING THE EE4 BUILDING SIMULATION SOFTWARE

Robert Calla, Phylroy Lopez, Paul Wyndham-Wheeler

Abstract: In 1997, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) developed a highly specialized building energy compliance-checking software called EE4. The need to release a better quality product and to make enhancements and maintenance of the EE4 software more efficient led to several initiatives on behalf of the CANMET Energy Technology Centre (CETC): the development of a detailed project management database to track the various types of work and their level of progress, the implementation of a coding standard, the incorporation of some software configuration management practices and the development of an automated set of testing procedures. These are the initiatives which are discussed in this paper.
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