EiffelStudio 16.05 released: maintenance release

Bug fixes, performance improvements

Eiffel Software announced today the release of EiffelStudio 16.05, the latest version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE). EiffelStudio is a comprehensive suite of tools that enable programmers to produce correct, reliable, and maintainable software systems while keeping control of the development process.

EiffelStudio 16.05 is a maintenance release. The focus has been on additional testing, bug fixes,  speed and performance improvement  so that our users can take full advantage of the benefits offered by the technology without inconveniences along the way.

“It is good for our customers that from time to time we focus on fine tuning and improving the mechanisms that we already have,” says Emmanuel  Stapf, senior engineer at Eiffel Software. “Our users have asked for certain improvements in our technology, we are answering their calls. With the new release which is more stable and mature we are in a better position to continue adding functionnalities.”

To learn more, see the EiffelStudio 16.05 release notes and to get started, download EiffelStudio.

EiffelStudio is based on the Eiffel programming language, the most extensive implementation of O-O concepts, standardized through ECMA and the International Standards Organization. Its core concepts, native only to Eiffel, such as Design by Contract™seamless developmentautomatic testingvoid safetyparallel programming, and modelling facilities allow developers to write predictable and controllable applications that are easy to maintain. EiffelStudio, which received the prestigious ACM Software Systems Award, is used by developers and design-team leaders in challenging enterprise environments in all areas of software development such as finance, health, defense … Applications built with EiffelStudio run flawlessly 24×7, 365 days a year.