Software Design X-Rays

Exercises

We covered a lot of ground in this chapter as we focused both on gaining situational awareness of existing problems and on getting guidance that makes it easier to understand existing code. In the following exercises you get the opportunity to try a technique from each of those categories.

Support Code Reading and Change Planning

• Repositories: Spinnaker^[116]
• Language: JavaScript and Groovy
• Domain: Spinnaker is a continuous-delivery platform.
• Analysis snapshot: https://codescene.io/projects/1650/jobs/4074/results/code/temporal-coupling/between-repos

A change coupling analysis lets you reason about suggested changes in the sense that you may detect implicit dependencies. By uncovering those dependencies you’re able to plan ahead and avoid ...