Thank you for using SourceAudit, a product of FrontEndART Ltd. We hope that this tool will be of great help to improve your software's quality by auditing the code of your Symbian C++ projects.

This is a public Beta release available as a free download for evaluation purposes. You are strongly encouraged to send us feedback on using this tool to the addresses shown below. We hope that we can improve the final version based on your comments more efficiently.

What is SourceAudit?

The product is integrated into most popular integrated development environments including Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse and Carbide, and can be used to check C++ projects against violations of rules according to the installed rule packages.

This release includes a rule package for checking C++ source code written for the Symbian platform. It consists of a set of rules for coding standards based on the official Symbian coding and development recommendations, which can be found in the Symbian OS Software Development Kits. See, for example, the "Series 60 SDK for Symbian OS" documentation (Series 60/Series 60 Examples/Coding Conventions).

The SourceAudit tool is based on the general reverse engineering framework for analyzing C/C++ software called Columbus/CAN of FrontEndART Ltd.

System requirements

Hardware requirements

1. Processor: Intel Pentium or later, or a 100 % compatible.
2. Memory: at least 256 MB RAM. Note that large projects can significantly increase the memory requirement.
3. Hard disk space: Minimum 20 MB for the software itself. Intermediate files created during analysis require additional space.

Software requirements

1. Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 Server.
2. Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the electronic documentation.
3. Development environment. Visual Studio 6.0 / .NET 2002 / .NET 2003 with Visual C++ (Carbide.vs is supported) or Carbide.c++ Express 1.0 is required.
4. Symbian SDK (accessible from Symbian).

Notes about installation

Before you start with the installation please note the following:

1. SourceAudit can be installed also in multi-user configuration.
2. Only one instance of SourceAudit can be installed on the same system. Different versions cannot be used simultaneously.
3. Prior to installation please remove any previous versions of SourceAudit, such as 1.1.

After the prerequisites listed above have been properly installed, first make sure that your development environment is not running and then install SourceAudit on Windows simply by starting the installation program. After this follow the instructions provided by the installer. Additional rule packages may be installed at any later time.

License key

Near the end of the installation you will be asked to enter the 25-character license key provided to you by FrontEndART. You may also enter the license key at any later time by starting the program Activate from the FrontEndART SourceAudit program folder in the Start menu. Note that you will not be able to use SourceAudit without a proper license key.

For more information

On the FrontEndART download page a sample project is available in which code fragments are provided for the illustration of each rule violation of the Symbian package. Please refer to this sample to see the effect of the rules.

Please refer to the supplied User's Guide and Rule Package Description for Symbian documents for more information.

Contact information

Please give us feedback on using SourceAudit. If you find any bugs or experience problems with its use please let us know.

FrontEndART Software Ltd.
H-6701 Szeged, P.O. Box 700
Hungary
www.frontendart.com

                      

Have fun using SourceAudit!

Your FrontEndART team.

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