Overture Tool Development

Development Environment

To use or contribute to the Overture Tool project the build invironment must be setup with the required tools. The projects is based on Java with Maven2 which enable development on most platforms.

See the DevelopmentEnvironmentSetup for a full description. Quick links:

• Maven setup
• Pre-installed Eclipse
• Eclipse FAQ
• EclipseGuidelines

Overture Tool Project structure

The Overture Tool Project is build around a set of core artifacts such as an AST, Parser, Interpreter, etc. Additionally to the core artifacts a set of Eclipse Plug-in projects exists which provides an IDE for Overture. The core artifacts are then integrated in the IDE as plugins.

To contribute to the Overture project we provide a guide for contribution to the core artifacts and a guide + script for contribution ti the IDE development.

• Guide for building the core subset of the Overture Tool. BuildOvertureToolCore
• Guide for building the Overture IDE. BuildOvertureToolCompleteToolSet

Project overview and documentation

The documentation of the Overture project can be found at our Source Forge site together with specific information on how to check out a single artifact and how to use the tools made to aide the development.

Maven contribution instructions

Instruction on how to add a new artifact to the maven repository etc. DeveloperInstructions

Test procedure

Before a Release Candidate is released a number of tests must be performed. On the ReleaseProcedure side a number of none automatic tests is listed which needs to be completed prior to a release to insure a higher level of stability. This procedure is an extra test layer after the automatic tests.

-- KennethLausdahl - 17 Feb 2010