Product Features

NDepend is a .NET tool that provides deep insight into code bases. The tool empowers developers, architects and executives to make intelligent decisions on projects. The community name it the "Swiss Army Knife" for .NET programmers.

Easily Manage Large Projects

Most companies have large systems that work together, often in mysterious ways. NDepend's in-depth reporting and toolset can help your company enforce its own coding standards and maintain complex projects.

Code Rule and Code Query

Hundreds of default code rules to check against best practices. Support for Code Query over C# LINQ (CQLinq) to easily customize rules and query code.

Powerful Dependency Graph and Matrix

Explore how the code is actually structured and shed light on architectural flaws thanks to the most powerful code dependency graph and dependency matrix available in the tool industry.

Smart Technical Debt Estimation

For each issue, the cost to fix and the severity are estimated through smart and customizable C# formulas. Thus estimations proposed are realistic.

Continuous Code Quality

A unique approach to continuously keep the technical debt under control and reimburse it with time.

Quality Gates

Quality Gates are C# LINQ (CQLinq) queries that implement PASS/FAIL criteria to code quality.

Monitor the Health of Your Application

NDepend allows your team to accurately gauge the overall health of your application, no matter how complex it is.

Trend Monitoring

Get Trend Charts about pretty much any code metrics to master the evolution of your application.

Code Diff since Baseline

Compare two versions of a code base and its issues set, and browse diff and changes in any way you can think of.

Reduce Friction Between Your Developer Teams

NDepend's reporting and analysis helps architects and developers to communicate and reduce confusion.

Continuous Integration Reporting

Integrate NDepend analysis into your build process and get highly customized and detailed reports to see progression and prevent code quality degradation.

Working with Legacy Code is Now Easier

By mapping out the structure of the project, it is much easier to see how components and dependencies are connected.

Real-World Proof

Full Visual Studio and Azure DevOps integration, super fast and lightweight analysis, integration within all CI/DevOps systems, NDepend is conceived for real-world programmers.

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Trend Monitoring

NDepend Trend Charts (3 minutes)

NDepend lets create trend charts. Trend charts are made of trend metrics values logged over time at analysis time. More than 50 trend metrics are available per default and it is easy to create your own trend metrics.

NDepend Trend Chart

Trend charts are displayed on the NDepend dashboard. Some trend charts are available per default to show:

  • Lines of Code
  • Number of Code Rules Violated and number of Code Rules Violations
  • Code Coverage per Tests
  • Max and Average values for various Code Quality Metrics
  • Third-Party Usage

Trend charts can be customized and it is easy to create your own trend charts to show default trend metrics and/or custom trend metrics.

Trend Charts on the NDepend Dashboard

Measuring a code base trends with NDepend comes with many flexible sub-features:

  • Lines of Code
  • Trend charts can be created and customized.
  • New Trend metrics can be written through CQLinq queries. For example here is the definition of a trend metric that counts the numbers of types implementing the interface System.IDisposable:
    Customize Trend Metric
  • Trend charts can be displayed and analyzed both in the main NDepend UI and in the reports.
  • NDepend.API comes with a sub API to read/write trend metrics values logged and to force log.

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