The Erlang Tools Application (TOOLS) contains a number of stand-alone tools which are useful when developing Erlang programs. The current set of tools are:
- coast
- A beta version of the new tool for coverage and call statistics analysis of Erlang programs.
- cover
- The old tool for coverage analysis of Erlang programs.
- dbg
- A text based trace facility. Makes it possible to trace function calls, messages etc. Can be used instead of, or as a complement to the Trace Tool.
- emacs
- An Erlang editing Erlang mode for Emacs; please see 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.
- instrument
- Utility functions for obtaining and analysing resource usage in an instrumented Erlang system.
- make
- A make utility for Erlang programs (similar to UNIX make).
- tags
- A module for creating TAGS file for the emacs tags functions.