GNAT Pro Tools
3-5 day course
Through lectures and hands-on workshops, this 5-day course shows how to use AdaCore tools for improving overall code quality as well as for testing and debugging. It presents tools such as GNATcheck (style checks / coding standard compliance), GNATmetric (metric measurements), CodePeer (static analysis / vulnerability detection) or GNATcoverage (structural code coverage analysis) and GNATtest (unit testing). It will also show how to make use of the GNAT compiler options and pragmas in order to detect certain kinds of errors early in the development process, and how to take advantage of stack usage data that can be extracted at compile-time.
Target Audience Ada developers, project managers and quality assurance engineers interested in using static and dynamic analysis tools. Some knowledge of Ada is assumed; no previous experience with the GNAT Pro toolset is required.
Course Duration 3 days minimum covering any three topics listed below 5 days covering all topics listed below
Day 1 - The GNAT Pro Environment
- GNAT Studio IDE
- (optional) GNATbench for Wind River Workbench or Eclipse
- GNAT Project Facility
- Insights and tips on the GNAT toolchain and options
Day 2 - Static Analysis
- Advanced usage of compiler checks and warnings
- GNATmetric – metric computation
- GNATcheck – coding standard compliance verification
- GNATstack – static stack usage analysis
Day 3 - Dynamic Analysis
- Compiler switches and pragmas
- Advanced usage of the debugger
- AUnit and GNATtest – unit testing
- Ada 2012 for dynamic analysis
- Advanced exception analysis
- Structural code coverage with GNATcoverage
Day 4 - CodePeer
- CodePeer overview
- Using CodePeer
- Justifying CodePeer messages
- CodePeer messages and annotations
- External tools integration
- CodePeer customization
Day 5 - Introduction to custom tool development with Libadalang
- Using syntax and semantic analysis with Libadalang
- Writing custom checkers with LKQL
- Writing custom code modification and instrumentation