Toolsets, Libraries, Repositories, and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) - Programming Tools and Toolsets

Toolsets, Libraries, Repositories, and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): Programming Tools and Toolsets

A programming tool or software development tool is a program or application that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, and also support development efforts and applications.

Tools and toolsets may provide a wide variety of capabilities, and come in a variety of configurations (and be called by different names), such as:

• Binary compatibility analysis tools
• Bug databases
• Build tools
• Code coverage
• Compilation and linking tools
• Debuggers
• Documentation generators, library interface generators, integration tools
• Метогу debuggers, revision control tools, scripting languages, search tools
• Source code editors
• Source code generation tools
• Static code analysis tools
• Unit testing tools

The security professional needs to be aware of the existence and availability of these toolsets and how they may pertain to the security of the systems that the security professional is being asked to manage and maintain.

Reliance on experts in this area as needed to help better understand the impact of the use of one or more of these items in a production system is very important for the overall security to be addressed properly in the system.