Software Development Tools
A programming tool is a program or application that software developers use to create, debug, or maintain other programs and applications. The term usually refers to relatively simple programs that can be combined together to accomplish a task, much as one might use multiple hand tools to fix a physical object.
From : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_tools

Development tools include such tools as compilers, debuggers, profilers, application generators, database query languages, and GUI development tools.
From: OpenDEN