CERN Accelerating science

Software Development Tools Service

  Arash Khodabandeh IT/IPT

In IPT Group 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://www.cern.ch/PTTOOLS/

You can contact us at the e-mail address swtool@ptsun00.cern.ch.

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

http://www.cern.ch/PTTOOLS/SoftNew.html

Requirement Engineering

• PSS-05 URD Template (IPT product): For FrameMaker 5.5.
  New upgrade includes configuration for the new Save As HTML module that comes with FrameMaker 5.5.

Analysis and Design

• ADAMO (IPT product): ER design and programming system.

• OMW : Martin/Odell analysis and design tool with C code generation.

• Rose/C++ : OMT/Booch/UML analysis and design tool with C++ code generation.
  Upgrade to 4.0.16b with support for UML and for new platforms (IRIX and OSF).

• StP : OMT/Booch/UML analysis and design with C++ code generation.

Modelling and Simulation

• Modsim : Discrete event modelling and simulation tool.

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.
  Upgrade to 5.5.
  Note: OSF is not supported anymore by Adobe.

• IXgen : Indexing and marker management tools for FrameMaker.
  Upgrade to 2.5 for FrameMaker 5.5.

• User Guide Templates (IPT product) : For FrameMaker 5.5.
  New upgrade includes configuration for the new Save As HTML module that comes with FrameMaker 5.5.

• VisualThought : Multipurpose drawing, diagramming and flowcharting tool. It produces MIF, RTF, EPS, HTML image maps and other interesting formats it can save diagrams in.
  New in production for UNIX and Windows.

• WebMaker : Generic configurable converter from FrameMaker 5.1 or earlier to HTML (for UNIX, Mac and Windows).