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The agility of all development activities starts at the code-base - as it gets more complex, it becomes harder, slower, and more expensive to change.

Spiralling complexity is widely seen as the single biggest challenge for software development today. It is easy to focus on localized cases (like functions or classes) while overlooking more serious system-wide complexity caused by high interdependence and architectural erosion.

Structure101 uniquely exposes complexity at all levels of the code-base, and lets teams develop simpler code-bases with defined architectures, so they get more done in less time.

Structure101 is the first tool to make meaningful structural analysis and control possible for code-bases written in C and C++. As a Jolt-award winner in 2009, it continues to lead and innovate in this important space of software development.

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Understand code structures...

Browse dependency graphs
Auto-partition to find hidden structures
Merge header & source for a logical module view
View both source and link-time dependencies
View dependency graphs as diagrams or matrixes
Discover used-by and uses entities for each node
Discover the underlying cause of unwanted dependencies
Slice through structure at class, folder or design levels
Find dependency tangles at any level
Find unused code clusters at any level

Control structural complexity...

Set complexity limits at each level
Drill down into overly complex areas

Evolve towards defined architecture...

Define layering constraints in architecture
Derive architecture diagrams from current structure
Edit and extend diagrams during iteration planning

Integrated add-on feature to QA·C & QA·C++
Structure model generation for a complete source project - from GUI or Make-based
Overview Perspective for project summary & metrics
Composition Perspective for hierarchical composition-based analysis
Slice Perspective for analysis of each layer across the complete tree or a branch
Class Hierarchy & Call-graph Perspectives for detailed breakout of these connections
Collaboration Perspective for detailed dependency tracing and project navigation
Architecture Perspective to create 'desired structure' diagrams and to highlight structural discrepancies
Dependency displays optionally in graph form or as dependency structure matrix (DSM)
Charting and analysis of structural metrics - XS (excess) and 'Tangles'
Structure101 Repository to store baselines & history - compare structures & display baseline differences

Structural display of the largest (multi-MLOC) code projects
Hierarchical structure derived from either physical or logical layout
Module, file, class and function entities represented
Modelling of function calling, class-based, file-inclusion, reference & template-based dependencies
Source, Compiler or Linker dependency view algorithms
Detailed (all), Overview or Includes-only levels of granularity
Hide, Show or Redirect options for Templates
'Fat' calculated for all entities; 'Excess' (XS) measures above a threshold
Auto-partitioning feature to highlight module-level 'Tangles'
Minimum Feedback Set identified to present the set of actions to remove Tangles
Publication of each structure snapshot to a central repository
Baseline comparison actions between current and published versions - perform 'what's new?' query
Architectural diagram creation and comparison with existing structure - identify non-compliances

Model Generation Utilities
Matched to the platform requirements of the host analysis product. Please view the relevant QA·C or QA·C++ platform and version support.

Structure101 Client

Operating System	Version	Current Release (3.3)
Windows(x86)	2000 (1), XP, Vista, 7
RedHat Linux (x86)	EL 3 (2), EL 4, EL 5

GLOSSARY & NOTES (January 2010)
Supported product/platform combination.
All versions of Structure101 need JRE version 1.6 or higher.
(1) Microsoft has announced end-of-support-life of Windows 2000 for March 2010.
(2) RedHat Enterprise Level 3 will reach end-of-maintenance life in October 2010. Only versions produced before this date are guaranteed to be supported.

Structure101 can be integrated into our Management Information System to analyse structural metrics over time and across modules and other entities.

"This is easily the best software I have seen to visualize, understand, and address complexity.."

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