Tools for C/C++ Development Projects
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Developing Software is not only a question of mastering a language syntax. Developers must also be acquainted with a variety of tools accomplishing different tasks along the process. Within a given project, the set of all tools used is mostly referred to as the tool chain. Examples of tools/tasks are listed below:
Code Editing: In most cases, an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) provides following facilities: a Source Code Editor, Build Automation and a Debugger.
Code Editing: Normally, the IDE itself or third parties provide additional classes, frameworks, libraries,
API, that extend the coding realm far beyond the initial capabilities of the language kernel. A good example of such an extension is the Qt framework that allows developers to write GUI in C++ without bothering with low level coding of graphic items. They can better focus on the data model to be graphically represented.
Software Documentation
Document Management - among others Codes, Requirement Data Base, Test Reports including Coverage and Statistics.
Requirements and Changes Management
There are plenty of (open source) tools available, more or less powerful and easy to use. Below, I will discuss tools that I use myself especially in Internal Proj.. I will also take the opportunity to comment on development tasks, if necessary.
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Keywords: Document Management, Version Control, Distributed Software Development.
For more information, see Khelil.de: Git
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Keywords: Installing and maintaining open source software (packages).
Most of the tools that I have been using in my implementation projects are open source. MacPorts used to be a rather convenient tool to ensure that their latest versions has been downloaded. Beware: Only available on OS X systems. For more information, see Khelil.de: MacPorts
Quick Updates:-
Around 2020-09 it appeared that MacPorts had ceased to be properly maintained.
Alternative package administration tools on OS X
have been available since, especially
Homebrew.
- For a couple of years I have mainly been working on Linux systems that support several maintenance programs - see also Khelil: Linux packaging systems.
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Around 2020-09 it appeared that MacPorts had ceased to be properly maintained.
Alternative package administration tools on OS X
have been available since, especially
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Keywords: IDE, Multi-platform Deployment of C++ Programs, gui-Applcations.
For more information, see Khelil.de: Qt