Tools

CASE Tools

• "Together" whiteboard edition

  www.togethersoft.com
  Hugh Gallagher:
  Some time ago there was a message (from Geoff, I believe) about the "Together" line of CASE tools. I have given their "whiteboard edition" a spin and have found it to be reasonably useful. The whiteboard edition is free, their developers edition and enterprise edition run $2500 and $3995 respectively.
  The whiteboard edition only incorporates class and package diagrams, you have to spend money to get the others (sequence, collaboration, state, activity...). A cute idea behind the application is that of "round-trip engineering", whereby if you make changes to the UML diagrams the source code changes to reflect them and vice versa. The gui environment for creating and manipulating class diagrams was simple to learn.
  One useful feature is that it allows you to reverse-engineer class diagrams from existing code. As a newcomer to OO/C++ I found this very useful in checking that the code I had written actually corresponded to the class diagrams I had started with! (it rarely did...)
  The diagrams print nicely, and are saved in windows metafile format. This is great for PC users as they can be easily imported into Word documents, etc... The developers edition has a nice feature whereby it automatically generates documentation for the current project, producing html/gif files for all the diagrams in the project.
  NT/98/95, Linux, and Unix versions are available.

• Dia: A UML diagram editor

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/
  Liz Buckley-Geer:
  HI all, I was pointed at the following Linux UML drawing tool by Marc Mengel who is a member of the computing division. He has tried this out and likes it. I installed it and have been playing around with it.

  There is a RH6 rpm for version 0.8 and a tar file for the most recent version 0.84 which you can build - it needs libxml version >=1.8.5 and associated packages - you can get these from the RedHat web site.

  It seems to be fairly decent to use. You select the item you want to create and click in the window - then click on the arrow key in the top left of the drawing box and then you can double click on the item you just created and you get a dialog box to add the name etc.

  Nick West:
  I agree with Liz and think we should adopt this until we have something better. My one complaint is that there isn't much documentation. Mostly its intuitive enough but, as well as double clicking objects as Liz says, some can also be modified by right clicking. Class and comment boxes have a series of faint crosses on their borders. If you create a line object and place one of its green end points on a cross, it turns red and becomes attached i.e. moving the box also moves the line. You acn also group a set of objects to move them together. You can add and delete segments on associations by right clicking on a segment. If you find your composite or aggregation diamonds won't go the way you want then try changing segments.

Code Development Tools

• kdevelop

  http://www.kdevelop.org/
  

• wipe out

  http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html
  

• codeforge

  http://www.codeforge.com
  Commercial.

• Code Crusader

  http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/jcc/
  (Open Source)

• CodeWarrior

  http://www.metrowerks.com/
  (not on Solaris and commercial). Geoff is using this.

• Sniff

  http://www.takefive.com/penguin/
  Fons recommended it. It is free on Linux.

• Insure++

  http://www.parasoft.com/products/insure/index.htm
  Jeff McDonald:
  In developing a computing project for atlas, I found that the insure++ program to be invaluable. The program catches many first-timers mistakes, like methods of memory allocation and making sure that each "new" has a corresponding "delete". I am convinced that it made me a better c++ programmer. I used a demo version of insure++ that has since expired. BNL has a site license on this product and I'm planning to use it there -- it hasn't been successfully setup yet. (The demo/evaluation version is available for a limited period of time if anyone is interested.)

  I'd like to make a couple of points based on my experience with insure++:

  1. you will not use insure++ everyday
  2. it will help us write better, more effective code
  3. insure++ works very well with other dependencies
  4. insure++ saved me a lot of time, frustration and found bugs that I would not have found with a standard debugger

  I haven't used purify, but just recently, I had a bug that I could not locate with a gdb debugger. One of my colleagues at FNAL offered to help -- he compiled the code with purify, but told me that the purify program failed at the global object construction stage. (I don't have any more details as to why.) My point is that even though I haven't had any experience with purify, but it seems not to be very robust.

  I think that I could endure the task of copying/building code at a remote machine in order to reap the benefits of using insure++. Insure++ is best, I think, for determining bugs in programs in late development stages or locating errors related due to things like memory violations and memory leaks -- which most debuggers fail at. I would tend to agree with the statement made by the root development community.

  Liz Buckley-Geer:
  Linux license - node locked single user $4295
  Linux license - floating single user $4495
  

  Discounts are available for multiple floating licenses and multiple platforms but the license agreement does not allow access by users who are not logged on to a FNAL machine. Parasoft is not interested in selling us a license that would allow remote users to access the floating licenses (as with other vendors) - it seems they make enough money and they don't need our business bad enough to give us a good deal! CD has already explored this with them. So even if fermi were to purchase licenses you would have to log on to a

Code Browsing Tools

• Doxygen

  • Examples:-
    • http://doc.trolltech.com/
    • Minos Off-line code
  • Download: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
    Brett Viren:
    In my learning of Qt I have become very impressed with theirs which is called Doxygen. I don't think now is the time to worry about this, but I just wanted us to put it on our mental lists.

    Nick West:
    It certainly has a very professional look to it. Originally I had the impression that it was missing some features but now that I have played with it I see I was mistaken. I think we should adopt it