DepAn: Dependency visualization and analysis

DepAn is a direct manipulation tool for visualization, analysis, and refactoring of dependencies in large applications.

Releases

The 29-Jan-09 release of DepAn is available for download. This release should run on most Linux/GTK platforms that run Eclipse with Java 1.6. Features and capabilities are covered in our Release Notes.

If your engineering workstation does not meet these standards, you will need to build your own version. At a minimum, this requires the Eclipse Plugin Development Tools (PDT). The Engineering Advice page should help you configure your build environment.

We welcome pre-packaged, downloadable versions for other platforms (Windows, anyone?).

Features

• Direct manipulation of heterogeneous dependency information in an Eclipse RCP environment.
• Analysis and visualization of very large applications.
• For Java, dependency discovery at the class member level.
• Import of FileSystems as source of dependency information.
• Collapse child dependency into parent entities to reveal class level interactions.
• Selection of nodes by type, edge-count, and paths.

Documentation

• DepAn Users Guide: Still pretty primitive.
• Use cases:
• Are there any uses of a specific class?
• EngineeringAdvice: How to build your own DepAn.

Contributions

Contributions of all types: new analysis forms, new languages, new dependency models, and especially bug fixes are welcome. If you're interested, the Engineering Advice page should help you get started. Please note that all contributions are code reviewed before they are integrated into the trunk.