Development Tools and Frameworks

From MantidProject

Here is a list of development tools and frameworks that are used in the implementation of the Mantid Framework.

Contents 1 Source code control 2 build tools 3 unit testing 4 building GUIs 5 Visualistation tools 6 Graphing tools 7 Code documentation 8 Issue tracking 9 IDE 10 Other Libraries

Source code control

• Subversion

build tools

• SCons (www.scons.org)

unit testing

• CxxTest (LGPL, perl based)

building GUIs

• Qt (http://trolltech.com/products/qt)

Visualistation tools

• OpenGL and the QtOpenGL module

Graphing tools

• Qt
  • qwt http://qwt.sourceforge.net/
  • qwtPlot3D http://qwtplot3d.sourceforge.net/
  • qtiPlot http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html
• MatPlotLib (using Python) http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

Code documentation

• DOxygen

Issue tracking

• trac, includes wiki and subversion bindings

IDE

• Visual Studio 2005
• Ecplise

Other Libraries

• STL
• Boost
• GSL
• POCO