Headway Updates Architecture Tool

Headway Software has announced an upgrade to its software structural analysis and architectural control product, Structure101 for Java.

According to Headway, controlling software architecture through dependency management and analysis is an often overlooked but critical aspect of software development projects. It is often overlooked because it can be hard to do. Headway says that Structure101 simplifies the process of finding, analyzing and measuring the impact of rogue software dependencies.

Structure101 for Java lets you see and understand how applications are constructed. Supposedly, all you do is point Structure101 at your code and you can see where those architectural skeletons lie. Structure101 for Java features include: view dependencies at any level; detect, measure, and report excessive structural complexity; different hierarchies and auto partitioning of graphs.

Structure101 Version 2 adds:

• A new Slice perspective that lets you see your whole code-base at any level of composition, for example at the class level, package level or at any design level. It also lets you quickly discover tangles and how they percolate up through the higher levels.
• A dependency structure matrix ('dsm') representation for large dependency graphs (such as slices).
• Tagging of code-level items in order to discover how they roll up through different slices and hierarchies.
• Hiding of model items.

You can download Structure101 for Java.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 11:21 AM  Permalink