Cool Git plugins for Understand to access commits, authors, owners, cohesion, coupling, and dates.
Tag: Architecture
Dependency Networks with Understand
A script to calculate and display design structure matrices based on file dependencies—plus lots of cool metrics based on the matrix.
Create Beautiful Overview Graphs of Your Code
Five minutes with the free tool Gephi lets you turn Understand’s dependency data into a gorgeous overview of your project.
Scoping a Refactoring Effort for My Boss
TLDR You’ve been asked to consider replacing 2 open source modules–here is how to use Understand’s Architectures and Dependency analysis to let your boss know how much effort/risk this will entail. Details…
Using Architectures to Easily Track Dependencies on Open Source
Using Architectures to Easily Track Dependencies on Open Source
Making a Variable Tracker Graph
Use Understand’s Information Browser to find and graph all possible variables of your source code.
Visualizing Shared Tasks
Abstract: Visualize an architecture of functions with the Shared Tasks graph. What’s worse than having too many chefs in the kitchen working on the same dish? Thread concurrency problems. A task –…
9 Techniques That Help You Safely Work With Legacy Code
Success with legacy code relies on only making changes to code you understand. Here are 9 systematic approaches that will help you UNDERSTAND your legacy code.
Making a Custom Cluster Graph
Extend the custom architecture dependencies graph by adding clusters.
Making a Custom Architecture Tree
How to create a custom architecture tree using the Python API.