Next Generation Code Improvement Tool, Sempre, Gets Ready for Launch

Amid industry reports of billion dollar losses and lives threatened by software errors, Toolbuilders announces mid-December release date of its Sempre code improvement tool.

Spokane, WA (PRWEB) November 18, 2004 -- Plagued by billion dollar losses due to software errors, and haunted by deaths directly attributed to some of those errors, the software development industry will receive much needed help come mid December in the form of a product that promises to help programmers write dramatically better code. Toolbuilders Laboratories Inc. announced today its plans to release Sempre Developer Personal by mid December of 2004, marking the companys first commercial release of its self-described source code improvement environment for the C language. Sempre Developer Personal is priced at $199.00 and will be sold online through e-commerce partner element-5, a company with a proven reputation for delivering high customer satisfaction experiences for online sales in the technical products industry. After a $100.00 discount for early adopters", the tool will cost just $99.00.

Sempre Developer Professional, the big brother of Sempre Developer Personal, will release at the same time as Sempre Developer Personal. Sempre Developer Professional will sell for $799.00. It will also be discounted for early adopters and include an upgrade credit from the Personal version. The similarly priced Sempre QA Professional will be released around Q2 of 2005 and will contain features sharply focused on quality assurance activities. The Professional versions of Sempre will initially be available only through direct sales channels. Professional services are available to leverage Sempres more advanced capabilities in highly specialized environments.

Sempre is a static analysis, code refactoring, and code comprehension suite all delivered through its code improvement environment resembling the integrated development environments (IDEs) developers are familiar with. The remarkable interface that fuses all these features together is intuitive enough that new users can quickly dive into some of its most advanced capabilities, helping to support marketing claims of rapid productivity ROI.

Sempre has been very effective for us on our NASA and DoD projects," says Dr. Joel Henry, a researcher who performs independent verification and validation at the University of Montana. It performs fast, automated source analysis and has been instrumental in uncovering critical issues that went undetected."

According to Toolbuilders, one of Sempres most notable features is its Visual Backtrace technology; a sort of source code visual aid that helps developers better comprehend call structures within a body of code. Visual Backtrace is an enhanced multi-path tracing feature that builds an exhaustive list detailing critical aspects of entities as they are traced. In turn, this helps auditors analyze a greater number of paths, in less time, across the entire code base.

Sempre is one of the few desktop tools of its kind that allow for both the auditing and editing of source code, setting it apart from other review only" code auditing systems. Changes to code are quickly recognized and adjustments made to the displayed source trees and other code browsers. Re-analysis incorporates these changes quickly enough to make feasible the process of editing and auditing during code authoring.

Using patent-pending Contextual Source Analysis, Sempre is able to automatically analyze large scale C language code structures to perform semantic evaluations, making it far more powerful than lexical tools.

Comparing Sempre to analysis tools that do not understand code context is like comparing a tool that can evaluate the meaning of an entire document to a spell checker," says Product Manager Scott Love. The powerful analysis results are referenced by virtually every editing assistance feature Sempre offers, and provide richly detailed, meaningful analysis reports."

Toolbuilders Laboratories is located at 505 N. Argonne, Bldg A, Suite 1, Spokane Valley, WA 99212. Contact by phone at (800) 837-9712, or by e-mail through info@toolbuilders.com

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