Resources and Tools

The Computer Science Department is equipped with several state-of-the-art software development tools for student and research use. Among these are the following:

• Rational Suite Enterprise - A full suite of software development "round trip" tools, from Rational Corporation, a premiere software development company. The tools include:
  • Rational RequisitePro - software requirements specification and tracking
  • Rational ClearQuest - document and software artifact version and configuration management
  • Rational Rose 98i - analysis and design modeling capbilities supporting the UML modeling language
  • Rational SoDA - documentation generation capabilities
• Visual UML - a UML modeling tool, with tracking and code generation capabilities
• Metrowerks Code Warrior - a multi-platform program development and debugging environment, supporting C, C++, Java and Pascal.
• Microsoft Visual Studio - A C/C++ development environment, well-suited for Windows-specific programming and project development.
• SourceSafe - configuration management tool for maintaining versions of programs, documents and images.

The UAH campus is fully networked with a fiber optics backbone interconnecting all computing facilities and providing easy access to the Internet. The department has several file servers, providing support to the networked Sun and PC labs within the department. Adequate time is available on the departmental machines, other campus computing resources, as well as the nearby State of Alabama owned high performance machines. The department also has a microcomputing laboratory used for instruction in logic design and computer architecture. Additional information may be obtained from the Computer Science Department’s homepage at http://merlin.cs.uah.edu/.