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    News from the Software Development Tools Service

    Eric Poinsignon , IT/API


    Abstract

    Description, content and news from the service.


    In SDT service (Sdt.Support@cern.ch) we actively help software projects in CERN experiments to identify, evaluate, purchase and use industrial software development tools. Network floating licences are used as much as possible, so that the tools can be run remotely. We can also, if you have an AFS account, give you access to our Solaris server in case the binary for your platform is not available. You can find the complete information on what we have and how to use it at URL:

    http://sdt.cern.ch/

    News of the year

    From beginning of the year, the SDT service is part of the new API group in IT (http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/api/).

    All the tools of SDT have been tested last year to be Y2K compliant. Tools not compliant have been excluded from the list, like Modsim (Intranet Solution).

    Last news

    Adobe is now providing a beta version of FrameMaker for Linux which has been installed on our server (http://sdt.cern.ch/FrameMaker/ProcLinux.html). As Linux is taking more and more interest at CERN, we will provide the best effort for this platform.

    Sniff version 3.2 has been installed.

    Below is the complete list of our tools. For the latest information watch our News page which is updated as things happen:

    http://sdt.cern.ch/SoftNew.html

    Analysis and Design
    • Rose : OMT/Booch/UML analysis and design tool with C++/Java/Ada code generation.
    • StP : OMT/Booch/UML analysis and design with C++ code generation.
    Programming and Debugging
    • SNiFF+ : integrated development environment for C, C++, Java, Fortran and CORBA IDL.
    Graphical User Interface Builder
    • X-Designer : interactive X-platform GUI builder with OSF/Motif toolkit widgets, C, JAVA and Windows code generation.
    Quality, Metrics and Testing
    • Logiscope Tool Kit : source code analyser and test coverage for C/C++/Fortran.
    • Look! : C++ dynamic visualization system.
    • Insure++ : comprehensive tool for error detection in C/C++ programs.
    Documentation
    • FrameMaker : complete and integrated publishing tool.
    • IXgen : indexing and marker management tools for FrameMaker.
    • SoDA : Software Documentation Automation.
    • VisualThought : multipurpose drawing, diagramming and flowcharting tool.
    • SDLT (API product) : Software Documentation Layout Templates, for FrameMaker.
    • User Guide Templates (API product) : for FrameMaker.

    About the author(s): Eric Poinsignon is the manager of the SDT Service.


    For matters related to this article please contact the author.
    Cnl.Editor@cern.ch


    CERN-CNL-2000-001
    Vol. XXXV, issue no 1


    Last Updated on Thu Apr 13 20:29:10 GMT+04:30 2000.
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