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.
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.
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.
In-Depth Issues Management
Explore the issues-set in a few clicks and focus your effort on what is urgent and important.
Harness Test Coverage Data
Import test coverage data, and make the most of it in the NDepend feature-rich context.
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.
Warnings on Build Process Health
Be warned of potential build process problems before they end up causing friction and pain.
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.
Complexity and Diagrams
Spot too complex code at a glance thanks to unique diagramming capabilities.
Code Quality and Code Metrics
Lines of Code, Cyclomatic Complexity, Coupling, Nesting Depth, Rank, NDepend supports them all (and much more).
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.
Detect Dependency Cycles
Get rid of dependency cycles between components to achieve higher code maintainability.
Enforce Immutability and Purity
NDepend helps maintaining clean side-effects free code to write highly maintainable products.
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.
NDepend.API and Power Tools
Write your own static analyzer based on NDepend.API, or tweak existing open-sources Power Tools.
Smart Technical Debt Estimation
Nowadays, the technical-debt metaphor has been widely adopted by the software industry. It was coined by Ward Cunningham in 1992.
This reference article by Martin Fowler describes the technical-debt metaphor in great detail. To quote M.Fowler:
In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt. Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future.
As from NDepend v2017.1.0, NDepend estimates the technical-debt of a code base. The tool proposes many unique features to handle the technical-debt the right way:
- Smart Technical-Debt Estimation: The technical-debt is estimated from C# LINQ formulas embedded inside each rule source code. This makes the the estimations both smart and easily customizable to your needs.
warnif count > 0
from m in Methods
where m.CyclomaticComplexity > 10
select new {
m,
m.CyclomaticComplexity,
Debt = (3*(m.CyclomaticComplexity -10)).ToMinutes().ToDebt(),
AnnualInterest = (m.PercentageCoverage == 100 ? 10 : 120).ToMinutes().ToAnnualInterest()
} - Quality Since Baseline: Recent code smells introduced since a baseline, that should be fixed before committing any code to source control, are highlighted in Visual Studio. They can then be fixed even before reaching the source server.
- Debt Exploration: Not only are C# LINQ queries against the NDepend.API used to write code rules and technical-debt estimations,
but such queries can be used to explore the technical-debt. For example the query below will return new issues since baseline ordered by decreasing debt-estimation.
from i in Issues
where i.WasAdded() && i.Severity.EqualsAny(Severity.Blocker, Severity.Critical)
orderby i.Debt.Value descending
select new { i, i.Debt }>The user doesn't have to write these debt-exploration-queries since they are generated by clicking values and menus in the Dashboard:
- Fastest tool on the market: Because developer time is invaluable, we made NDepend fast, very fast: the technical debt can be re-estimated after each compilation in Visual Studio in just a few seconds, even for hundreds of rules passed on a very large code base. And, as we know it is also important, without any noticeable IDE slow down.
100% customizable: Not only every facets of the debt estimation are customizable, but also the debt presentation is customizable too. Debt values can be estimated through money-amount instead of person-time and all thresholds can be adjusted in a few clicks through the NDepend Project Properties panel.
- Frictionless integration of serious Code Quality control in the development process.
- Over time developers get educated about rules to follow, and the right decisions are taken early.
- Since quality is checked automatically and continuously with a strong focus on recent changes, both in Visual Studio and in the DevOps, the team builds better code.
- Executives can control the return on investment made on quality.
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