Software development apparatus and method

A software development apparatus for developing software to be executed by a multi-core processor;

• comprising:
• a processor core identifier for identifying one of processor cores with which software development information for developing the software is associated;
• a display processor for displaying, in accordance with an identification result, association between the software development information and the associated processor core in a visually distinguishable manner;
• and
• a core color setter for correlating different colors with the respective processor cores,
• wherein the display processor colors a target element corresponding to a type of the software development information associated with the processor core, in a color correlated with the processor core, and
• wherein the display processor colors debugging windows associated with the respective processor cores in different colors correlated with the respective processor cores, and colors a line of the debugging window where a program associated with one processor core has been interrupted because of a breakpoint set with respect to another processor core, in a color correlated with said another processor core.