Questions about development tools and other tools that are useful especially to programmers.
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Is there a tool to generate multi-goal procedural instructions? [closed]
As a user: When I have good instructions to follow I'm sure I could do just about anything. With poor instructions I end up frustrated, wasting time and probably giving up.
The type of instruction I ...
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Do you have to ban atomics to get good tool support for race detectors?
It seems that Helgrind treats atomics the same way as normal read/write operations. So, using atomics will result in lots of false positives.
I don't know exactly how ThreadSanitizer deals with ...
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How to find classes that use certain DB tables
Problem:
I'm asked to prepare a document where all our DB tables are listed and I'm supposed to list all Controllers that uses these DB tables for read and another list for Controllers that do write ...
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Is there a tool that visually represents all the potential paths to a particular piece of code? [closed]
As an example of what I need and why I want it, I am trying to determine how a certain value (CurTotal) is getting set (wrongly). I've come up with these notes to myself to try to understand just what ...
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How to keep your programming resources, tips, tools and snippets handy and easy to find? [closed]
In my everyday work and on my free time, I tend to discover/learn/find pieces of information that can be really useful if used at the right moment but also really easy to forget and/or to find again ...
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Communication between programmers and system engineers. Tool for planning builds and maintenance jobs
We have Development department and the department of System Engineers that works on a big project (development of J2EE application).
We are using Build management system, Bug tracking system and a ...
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When is it appropriate to start using the next revision of a tool when dogfooding?
Specifically, I am working on a tool that integrates a DVCS and build system, but I image the challenge I am facing would arise for anyone developing a "meta" tool (compiler, VCS, build system, test ...
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When should we stop work and make tool?
As a software engineer, we are always eager to get effective tools to boost our productivity.
And in our daily work, we are often unsatisfactory with the existing tools and would like to have better ...
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Any tools/suggestions on how to refute code coverage quality argument
Now I know people could consider this question duplicate or asked many times, in which case I would appreciate a link to relevant questions with answer to my question.
I have been recently in ...
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Is there an equivalent to gnu parallel for windows? [closed]
gnu parallel is a small utility that allows you to execute bash commands in parallel. I was wondering if there's something similar for windows.
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Is the development of CLI apps considered “backward”?
I am a DBA fledgling with a lot of experience in programming.
I have developed several CLI, non interactive apps that solve some daily repetitive tasks or eliminate the human error from more complex ...
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Is physical Agile board “always” better than electronic tool?
Whenever the question comes up on which Agile tool to use use there always some people that answer "don't use an electronic tool because you will lose the big-visible-board advantage which better ...
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Solving the last mile problem in software engineering [closed]
The more I write code the more I realize that writing the code is not the hard part. The hard part is making sure all the dependencies are in order, there are no hard coded paths, that I don't have ...
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Tool helping with estimations [closed]
I am looking for a tool supporting me with estimations.
What I would like to do is to specify a higher level task and break it into several smaller tasks. When a task is small enough, I could assign ...
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Class of problems solvable by sed or stream editors
I've came across a question transform this text with sed [sed only]
and it got me wondering what class of problems is solvable by stream editors or programs/computational models with similar ...
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JavaScript refactoring tool [closed]
I'm on the process of refactoring a large JavaScript application, which has a lot of repeated functions with 2 or 3 different parameters, a lot of global variables used in several modules, etc.
Which ...
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Git-friendly spreadsheet format? [closed]
We're trying to move our project documentation process from Google Documents to a set of self-hosted Git repositories.
Text documents are Git-friendly enough, since we usually do not need any fancy ...
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what tools should I use for quality assurance and testing for front end javascript? [closed]
I am using jquery and HTML 5 techniques (like File API, HistoryAPI) extensively in a project I am working on.
I was wondering what tools I can use for
quality assurance my javascript and front ...
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What tools or techniques are useful for describing an unfamiliar codebase?
When manually inspecting unfamiliar code (to review or modify), I seem to have three options.
A top-down read of the code, choosing each next source file by how fundamental the filename seems. I ...
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Dependency Management tool for REST endpoints
I work in a Rest Oriented environment. The number of endpoints is quite large and span multiple applications. The dependencies between the endpoints are large in number as well and not very well ...
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Command Line Tool to generate a method usage report
Is there a command line tool (preferred) that'll generate a report of Java methods within a class and where they are used within a few project folders. Kind of how Netbeans does a "Find Usage" on open ...
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Is there such a thing as a specification-code framework?
I've been googling for a while and can't fathom why this doesn't exist yet.
By a specification-code workflow I mean a system which links code to it's specification. For example I could be looking at ...
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What is a good support knowledge base tool? [closed]
I have been searching for a tool to help my team organize its knowledge for resolving recurring support cases.
Context: our team is developing and supporting an huge applications (lots of ...
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How to better integrate a unix development environment into Windows [closed]
I'm mostly a Windows user but I do most of my development (essentially web development) using unix tools and software. I've been going back and forth between using a dedicated lubuntu virtual machine ...
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Universal code signing tool [closed]
I have a code signing certificate. I'd like to sign as many of my apps (.apk, .ipa, .ipk, .jar, .exe, .dll) as possible, including browser extensions.
Is there some 'universal' code signing tool that ...
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Picking a code review tool [closed]
We are a startup looking to migrate from Fogbugz/Kiln to a new issue tracker/code review system. We are very happy with Jira, especially the configurability, but we are undecided on a code review ...
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Automated deployment/installation of development tools [closed]
My team is looking to automate installation/deployment of all of our development tools.
The main driver for this is to ensure that everyone in the team has a consistent development environment setup ...
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How to check any undocumented methods provided by apple?
The following tools is provided by Apple
dlopen
dlsym
objc_getClass
sel_registerName
objc_msgSend
Those are listing Objective-C selectors, or strings. Objective-C selectors are stored in a special ...
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Do you know software tools for software engineering to define and implement software development process? [closed]
I'm looking for software tools that help you to define and apply an effective software development process.
I mean, tool cases to help you in software engineering to define your requirements for your ...
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Why does the code auditing tools like FindBugs require a compile step to work properly?
Basically I ran Intellij Idea 's plug in called FindBugs-Idea to analyze my code . I corrected whatever errror was caught and then ran the tool again but it was still complaining about the same error ...
