Re: Request for Ada Coding Standards

["Jeff Burns" <jeff@grammatech.com>]

George,

If you become interested in checking out tools that help automate compliance
with the SPC AQ&S, please take a look at our products: Ada-ASSURED and
Ada-Utilities.

Ada-ASSURED is a language-sensitive editor that formats code as it is being
typed or read.  Warning messages, shown either as comments in the code or
displayed in a separate window, alert you to style problems.  There are
"indicator" messages that warn you when you are approaching an undesirable
parameter you have defined, e.g. the current structure in which you are
working has 4 nested control structures and your coding standard allows
nesting to only 5 levels (per AQ&S).  "Violation" messages to alert you to
... well ... violations of your coding standard.

Ada-Utilities provides many of the same facilities as Ada-ASSURED.  It's for
sites that don't need an LSE, yet still want to ensure their code complies
with their coding standards.  It's a set of language-sensitive batch tools
designed for analyzing multiple files at once and it produces web
browse-able HTML reports with metrics of coding style standards compliance
along with hypertext cross-referencing to the source code and corresponding
sections of the AQ&S (or your in-house documentation, if desired).

Both Ada-ASSURED and Ada-Utilities can be customized to assist compliance
with the coding standards your group comes up with.  Many of the rules they
monitor may be turned on/off or can be parameterized.  Both tools can
automatically correct some style violations and additional code
transformations can be written with the scripting language that's included.

I've posted additional information in comp.lang.ada before that I think you
can still access through Deja News at:

http://xp6.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?recnum=13688149&server=db97p2&CONTEXT=8719
98805.1996556705&hitnum=20

Contact me directly if you'd like a complete information package or to
arrange a demo.

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Jeff Burns, Director of Marketing
GrammaTech, Inc.
One Hopkins Place
Ithaca, NY  14850
ph: 607-273-7340
fax: 607-273-8752
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