Hypermodelling Reporting: Towards Cockpits for Code Structure

摘要

Do we have a vendor lock in? How many classes of a framework do we extend in our code? These questions may be asked by software development managers. In order to reveal such facts, a lot of effort is needed. We present the Hypermodelling approach to build software cockpits and use it to reduce the effort. We show a cockpit for the variance of software that is reflecting facts about the inheritance of types. We reveal a schematic cockpit view and evaluate the effort to implement it. Project managers can now use a cockpit to investigate software variances more easily. This also enables easy investigations of dependencies on frameworks. Important indicators about variance can now be investigated at a central spot. This avoids costly, time-consuming and deep investigations in the first place. Further research can reveal additional cockpits for other roles to cover the whole development cycle. Furthermore, the reasonable effort to create such cockpits enables the possibility to create different kinds of cockpits and evaluate or compare the usage of those.