Less than 18 months after start up, the script debugging and dependency tracing specialist, Ellexus, has added ARM to its customer list.
Elexus provides software development and debugging tools designed to help engineers understand and control the way complex pieces of software work together.
"We can help engineers and CAD tool managers who have installation problems and migration problems and help them work with remote groups explaining what the problem is and demonstrating what the system should look like," Ellexus founder Dr Rosemary Francis told EW.
In many processes, large programs have to be controlled and glued together using mini-programs called scripts. These scripts work like recipes and are usually small, but the system can get complex when there are lots of scripts in different computer languages that all work together.
The Ellexus product detects the way these complex systems interact with files and programs. They put this information into a graph so that engineers can follow the flow of data and can see all the components in their system working together. This means they spend less time reading the scripts whenever they need to understand a new system or make a change. They can also use the graph to automatically document the system so they can share it with others.
ARM became a customer in August. Ellexus was founded 18months ago and the first version of its software was released in January.
Asked why she started the company, Dr Francis replied: "My frustration with using CAD tools. I could see money being poured down the drain."
"I went to Cambridge University and asked them to design a tool, and they said that would be really difficult, and that meant they really wanted to do it – so it was a walk in the park really," recounts Francis.
From there it was an obvious step to commercialise the tool
"I hired some people from the university on a consultancy basis to get the technology completed," says Francis, "that took about a year from proof of concept to turn it into a robust product."
