The CERES Project CERES Software Development Guidelines

In a medical informatics research project, there are usually people from different disciplines working together. Whilst the scientific work in such a project is done according to well-known standards, there is no common procedure to help those project memberg who develop software. The resulting software is often a patchwork consisting of software modules with many architectural styles, modularization concepts, and degrees of maturity, which comes from the typically very different skill levels of the developers. This led to the introduction of the CERES Software Development Guidelines in the CERES Project. The project works on the research on a web-based information system on hospital related data [WKI+3b], [WWS06]. The goal is to offer ubiquitous, up-to-date and valid information about hospitals, their structure, their services and their results.