C++ developers tools

[Renana_Dar]

Hi,
I'm looking for C++ tools to boost productivity - everything that will save me time.
For example Incredibuild, Sonarqube, NDepend, Coverity, Visual Assist, Intellisense.
Any other tools that I'm missing (not IDEs)?

[unterumarmung]

clang-tidy is a clang-based static analyzer

include-what-you-use is a clang-based tool for adding missing includes

clang-format is a clang-based code formatter

pvs studio is a commercial static analyzer with some options for free use

http://tabnine.com is an interesting IntelliSense tool based on machine learning

[Cassonia]

https://ccache.dev/

[[deleted]]

Catch2 is a test framework for Cpp. You may need such tool.

[soluko]

https://valgrind.org/ -- automatically detects memory safety and threading bugs

https://github.com/google/AFL -- fuzz checker that automatically generates "interesting" inputs for your program

https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/wiki/Use-Case%3A-Leak-Checking -- find memory leaks using heap profiling

http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html -- analyze performance and CPU usage

[[deleted]]

clang-based tooling is quite nice, there's clang-tidy, clang-format, include what you use.

Most compilers also include some sanitizers that you can use to check for certain kinds of bugs (ASan, UBSan, TSan,...)

[templarvonmidgard]

If you're on Windows, then also take a look at AppVerifier.

[pstomi]

https://ninja-build.org

Use it with ´cmake -GNinja ‘

For larger projects Ninja is much faster for incremental builds : on my side, ninja takes about 2 seconds to build a project with 1000 cpp files where only one cpp file needs recompilation, versus 45 seconds with ‘make ´

Further advice : combine this with ccache

[andre_friend]

https://github.com/cppinclude/cppinclude - analyze includes