What is the best set of development tools to develop Win32 Delphi applications? Include support tools such as automated build servers and modelling software. It would be interesting to get a list of the best tools for Delphi development so please provide a brief description of the tool, state why you use it, why you selected it over alternatives and the impact it has had on your development process. One tool per post please so te more popular and hopefully more useful ones filter to the top. I will update my answer below with my opinion of the tools we use here when I get some time.
IDE Delphi 2007 Professional (soon to be Delphi 2009)
Automated Build Server FinalBuilder 6
Unit testing DUnit
Code profiling AQTime
Installer creation InnoSetup
Help file management Help & Manual
Code modeling and design ModelMaker 9
Code formatting Jedi Code Formatter
Source Code Management Subversion and TortoiseSVN
Issue tracking Jira
Bug reporting and logging MadExcept
File comparison and merging Beyond Compare
Object persistence framework tiOPF
UI testing ???
Code documentation ???
GExperts - (FOSS) Integrated IDE tools (Already mentioned, but well deserving of further explanation). Features most used by myself include integrated grep search (which can include use of regular expressions) with a nice UI, code navigation (ctrl-g for quick search and jump to any method in unit), custom key combinations (eg you could set ctrl-shift-B to Build-All), ascii chart for any installed system fonts,
Note: FOSS - Free Open Source Software
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