The Tools application contains a number of stand-alone tools, which are useful when developing Erlang programs.
The current set of tools is:
- coast
- A tool for coverage and call statistics analysis of Erlang programs.
- emacs
- An Erlang editing Erlang mode for Emacs; refer to the User's Guide for more details.
- eprof
- An Erlang profiler; measure how time is used in your Erlang programs.
- exref
- A cross reference tool. Can be used to check external references between Erlang programs. Predecessor of xref (see below).
- xref
- A (new) cross reference tool. Can be used to check dependencies between functions, modules, applications and releases.
- instrument
- Utility functions for obtaining and analysing resource usage in an instrumented Erlang runtime system.
- make
- A make utility for Erlang programs (similar to UNIX make).
- tags
- A module for creating TAGS file for the emacs tags functions.