This document discusses various development tools including version control systems, debuggers, profilers, emulators, documentation generators, and bug tracking software. It provides examples of specific tools for different programming languages and environments like Git, DoxyGen, Jira, and Xcode. The document also covers topics like build systems, static analysis, logging, and using scripts and simulations to aid the development process.

1. Dev Tools
Author: Volodymyr Shymanskyy
December 2014

2. ● Version control
● Profilers, Debuggers
○ Advanced debugging features
● Prototypes, Simulators, Emulators
● Tracers, Dumps, Logs, Plots, Graphs,
Stats, Diagnostics
● Productivity tools
● ...

3. Even more
Environments
Build Systems
Instrumentation
Compilers
GUI editors
UT frameworks
Static analysers
Code/Doc generators
IDEs

4. Code generators
● GUI
○ wxFormBuilder
● Class Structure
○ Rational Rose
● Parsers, etc.
○ lex & yacc

5. Documentation generators
DoxyGen
● C/C++, C#, Objective-C
● Java, Python, PHP, VHDL
JavaDoc
PyDoc

6. DoxyGen example
/**
* <A short one line description>
*
* <Longer description>
* <May span multiple lines or paragraphs as needed>
*
* @param Description of method's or function's input parameter
* @param ...
* @return Description of the return value
*/

7. DoxyGen
structure
classes
graphs
interlinks
comments

8. Cross-References
LXR

9. Version control
Git, SVN (Subversion), Mercurial
Old: CVS, Perforce
Comparison
Simple:
git clone <url>
git pull/push
git add/commit
Understanding Git Conceptually

10. Tortoise SVN / Git, Gitg

11. Diff tools
WinMerge
Meld, KDiff3
Beyond Compare

12. Bug Tracking
Jira, Bugzilla

13. Build System
Makefile, CMake
Ant -> Ivy
Python
may be used ;)

14. Build
server

15. Static analysers
Needs only source code!

16. Static analysers
Java: FindBugs, Checkstyle
C++: Eclipse, Clang, Coverity, KlocWork
Obj-C: Clang
Other: JSLint, Pylint, Perl::Critic, ...

17. Dynamic Analysis
Needs scenarios!
Good to run with UT suite.
Debuggers, Profilers, Tracers...

18. UT Frameworks
● Provide infra for UT
○ Integrate to IDEs / CI
○ Reporting
○ Convenient APIs
JUnit, CxxTest, ...

19. Debuggers
Conditional breakpoints
Data breakpoints
Watch expressions
Reverse, Rec-Replay
Remote debugging
Offline debugging
Debugging in emulator!
Data Display Debugger

20. Profilers
● speed, resource usage, cache
Perl perl -d:NYTProf myscript.pl
Python python -m cProfile myscript.py
+pycallgraph
Java NetBeans, GC Viewer, here (rus)
You can do measurements directly in code!

21. Profilers

22. Valgrind
memcheck
cachegrind
callgrind
massif
helgrind
tutorial (rus)

23. Valkyrie

24. Kcachegrind

25. fun
sysstat (sar)
iostat
pidstat
mpstat
etherape, vnstat
powertop
socat, netem, strace, ltrace

26. Emulators
VirtualBox
QEMU

27. Protocol Sniffers / Analysers
Wireshark
Fiddler
Hardware
USB

28. Fiddler

29. Browser
dev tools

30. Productivity tools
Linux!
● KDE, krusader, yakuake, redshift
● VLC, Inkscape, Gimp
● Use console!!! Vim, Emacs
Windows:
● RocketDock, Actual Title Buttons, F.lux, WorkRave
● Browser, File Manager, 7z, SysInternals suite
● Punto Switcher, Keyboard, ConEmu, Putty
● Notepad++, STDU Viewer, Paint.Net, WinSCP, UltraVNC

32. IDE
● Visual Studio Windows, .Net, C/C++
● IntelliJ IDEA Java, Scala, Python...
● Xcode Obj-C, C/C++, Python
● PyCharm Python
● Padre Perl

33. Eclipse
● Java
● C/C++ CDT
● Python PyDev
● Perl EPIC
● Node.js
● … lots of plugins!

34. Prototyping
● Python, JS, Node.js
● Arduino
● Online:
○ Coding Ground
○ JSFiddle

35. Online tools
Validators
Drawing
Diagrams: Gliffy
Mockups: Balsamiq
Google Docs, Google Drive, Dropbox
FreeMind, github, trello, WeTransfer, doodle

37. Logs, Dumps, Event Traces
● “Debug by prints”
○ Embedded / multithreaded
● Log to file, to ram (may be shared)
○ Filter by module/severity
● Dump part of the state
○ Stats
● Event Traces
○ Binary, lightweight

38. Statistics
● Event counts
○ In domain, or internal
○ Amount of function calls
● Time of processing
● Latency
● CPU/RAM usage

39. Diagnostics
● Now check them all!
● During normal operation
● Special diagnostics mode
○ For intrusive things

40. Crash & Bug reporting
Environment info
Stack traces
Dumps, Stats, Logs...

41. Visualize!

42. geomview,
meshlab

43. Plots
Mathematica, gnuplot
Audible, smell? :)

44. Graphs
How it might be interesting?..

45. GraphViz

46. Instrumentation
Hooks Scripts
+

47. Simulators
● CNC
● ...
● User-mode Linux
Part of the system is replaced with a simulated one.

48. CLI - Command Line
● Interactive
● One-shot
Increases usability &
Allows automation!

49. Scripting Engine
● JS, Python, Lua, C# for .Net
● Examples
○ Atom, Sublime text editors
○ Some games use Lua
○ VirtualBox uses Python
● Even better automation! ^_^

50. Pick your own!Pick your own!

51. Volodymyr Shymanskyy
Embedded Trainer
Embedded Software Developer
GL Hackerspace Co-Founder
vshymanskyi@gmail.com
skype: vshymanskyi
LinkedIn, Facebook
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