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Ping Project Wiki

Welcome to the Wiki for the Ping project.

Ping is a cross-platform command-line utility and supporting library that measures network reachability and latency, aggregates statistics, and exports results in multiple formats. The project is an explicit experiment in AI-driven software development.

Origin and Purpose
The entire Ping project—including architecture, implementation, build scripts, and documentation—was created exclusively via Prompt-Engineering using the Roo VS Code extension together with GPT-5.1. No human wrote production code manually; humans only curated prompts, reviewed results, and executed the generated workflows.

This Wiki documents the architecture, development workflow, public APIs, and the Prompt-Engineering techniques used to build and evolve the project.

Contents

  • Home – Project overview and context (this page)
  • Architecture – High-level system design, modules, and responsibilities
  • Prompt-Engineering – How Ping was built entirely through prompts
  • Development-Workflow – Day-to-day workflow using Roo and GPT-5.1
  • API – Overview of public interfaces and links to generated docs
  • Doxygen-Integration – How we generate and embed Doxygen documentation
  • Roadmap – Future work and evolution of the Prompt-Engineering approach

Project Goals

  • Demonstrate that a non-trivial C++ project can be created end-to-end via Prompt-Engineering.
  • Capture a repeatable workflow for AI-driven development using Roo + GPT-5.1.
  • Provide clean, well-documented code and generated API reference via Doxygen.
  • Offer a realistic foundation for experimenting with networking, statistics aggregation, and export pipelines.

Technology Overview

  • Language: Modern C++ (CMake-based build)
  • Core Domains:
    • ICMP ping backends (per-platform)
    • Session orchestration and configuration
    • Latency/statistics aggregation
    • Console output and exporters (CSV, JSON)
  • Tooling:
    • CMake build configuration
    • Doxygen for API documentation and diagrams
    • Roo + GPT-5.1 for all code and documentation generation

Diagrams

Doxygen-generated diagrams will be added under /images and referenced from this Wiki. Placeholder example:

High-Level Overview

See also: Architecture · Prompt-Engineering · Development-Workflow · API · Doxygen-Integration · Roadmap

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