Tool Integration

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As applications get larger and more complex, the use of software tools becomes vital for tuning application parameters, identifying performance leaks, or detecting program defects. Extensive efforts within academia and industry over the last decade have resulted in a large collection of tools for practical application engineering. Available tools of broad interest include program source and structure browsers, editors, static program analysers, performance predictors, optimisation compilers, execution control and monitoring environments, sequential and parallel debuggers (providing deadlock detection and deterministic message replay mechanisms), data and execution visualisers, performance analysers, or various program tracers.