K2 Developments Ltd, a Manchester, England-based provider of software engineering applications, has an automatic documentation tool called George, which is targeted at software engineers developing C and C++ source code. It provides automatic creation of documentation from users’ source code into FrameMaker and Interleaf. Documents created by George are automatically hypertext-integrated, enabling on-line access to documentation and source code with navigation across the code base. It also boasts automatic indexing via textual or graphical representation. K2 plans to include Rich Text Format, RFT, and HyperText Markup Language, HTML, in May. The HTML version will enable code document generation by clicking on a button. Additional outputs such as Standardised General Markup Language, SGML, are scheduled for later this quarter, it says. George was originally developed two years ago to service K2’s own in-house documentation and was released in the UK last year. It has now been upgraded and will be distributed in the US by UniPress Software Inc, based in Edison, New Jersey. K2 is also upgrading ADI 4.0, an integration tool for Cadre Technologies Inc’s TeamWork software engineering tool. ADI is intended to improve quality and productivity in the design automation environment. Latest features enable capitalisation on the extensive information base within a document by dynamically linking design tools, documents and source code. The company, founded in 1987, is privately-held and has its fingers in other parts of the software supply pie, distributing Persistent Storage Inc’s object interface to relational databases (CI No 2,208), Centerline Software Inc’s programming tools, FrameMaker and InterLeaf. George is up on Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co workstations, with personal computer Windows and NT due in May. Prices start at $5,000.
