Development tools for large-scale computer programs

A meeting of the Subcommittee for Nuclear Code Unification of the Nuclear Code Committee of JAERI was held in February 1985, and effective methods of development and debugging of computer programs were discussed. Three documents on subjects listed below were then introduced and they consist of three chapters in this report. (1) Programming and debugging methods of computer programs, (2) static program debugging tool : SDEBUG, (3) development, maintenance and management tools of computer programs. Based on experiences with a large amount of program developments at Plasma Theory Laboratory of JAERI, very useful programming and debugging methods are presented in the second chapter. In the third chapter, new debugging tool that is useful for especially large-scale computer programs is introduced by JT-60 Program Office of JAERI. Many tools which are used for development, debugging, maintenance and management of programs are introduced in the fourth chapter by Computing Center of JAERI. (author)