CheckDep: A Tool for Tracking Software Dependencies

Author

Beyer, Dirk ; Fararooy, Ashgan

fYear

2010

fDate

June 30 2010-July 2 2010

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

43

Abstract

Many software developers use a syntactical `diff´ in order to performa quick review before committing changes to the repository. Others are notified of the change by e-mail (containing diffs or change logs), and they review the received information to determine if their work is affected. We lift this simple process from the code level to the more abstract level of dependencies: a software developer can use CheckDep to inspect introduced and removed dependencies before committing new versions, and other developers receive summaries of the changed dependencies via e-mail. We find the tool useful in our software-development activities and now make the tool publicly available.

Keywords

software engineering; software tools; CheckDep tool; code level; e-mail; software dependency tracking; software development; Cement industry; Computer industry; Concrete; Feedback; Industrial control; Licenses; Software performance; Software tools; Uniform resource locators; Visualization; Dependency Analysis; Program Understanding; Refactoring; Software Structure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2010 IEEE 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Braga, Minho

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7604-6

Electronic_ISBN

1092-8138

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPC.2010.51

Filename

5521774