Databorough – Producers of X-Analysis

Professional Quality Business Rule, Data Model Extraction and Audit Documentation for RPG, COBOL, DB/2

Package: X-Analysis Enterprise Discovery

(The package comprises of X-Analysis Lite, X-Documenter, X-Rev, X-Rules & X-Audit modules)

 

X-Audit enables managers of legacy applications to measure, monitory and proactively manage the complexity of and changes to their applications :

  • Understand where the most complex code in the system resides and plan accordingly
  • Be alerted to potentially harmful system conditions and defects before they cause production problems
  • Track changes in new versions of packaged applications to plan for refitting customizations
  • Compare versions of your custom applications at different points in time to track where changes were deployed

X-Audit is comprised of several components with features designed to accelerate the management of complex legacy applications:

  • Complexity metrics
    • Shows traditional complexity metrics by program and subroutine such as Cyclomatic Complexity and Halstead Volume
    • Shows As/400-specific RPG complexity metrics such as depth of IF/DO nesting, number of GOTOs, number of device files, etc
  • Difference Analysis
    • Reports on possibly harmful conditions such as missing source, source changed after object creation date, etc
  • Problem Alerts
    • Reports on possibly harmful conditions such as missing source, source changed after object creation date, etc
  • Difference Analysis
    • Compares versions of your system at different points in time
      • Identify changes to new release of packaged software in order to refit customizations you've made
      • Can be used to track changes to your custom systems over time for audit or management purposes
  • Linked Repositories
    • Allows linking and analysis of multiple X-Analysis repositories across multiple systems, languages and platforms
  • Metrics information
  • Metrics History
  • Difference Analysis
  • Problem Analysis

 

Feature list:

 

Complexity Metrics

  • All metrics exportable to Excel
  • Metrics calculated at both program and subroutine/procedure level
  • Traditional and AS/400-tailored metrics, including:
    • Cyclomatic Complexity
    • Halstead volume
    • Maintainability Index
    • Number of source line statements in the program
    • Number of GOTO's or CABxx statements
    • Greatest nesting depth of IF/DO statements
    • Greatest number of statements within an IF/DO block of code
    • Greatest depth of nested DO/FOR loops
    • Greatest depth of nested ELSE statements
    • and more
  • Standard reports and user-customizable report facility both included
  • Metrics data saved and may be analyzed for changes over time

Problem Alerts

  • All objects analyzed for potential problem conditions including:
    • Object with no source
    • Source changed after object creation date
    • Source with no objects
    • Duplicate logical files
    • Database files with no members
    • and more

Difference Analysis

  • Compare two or more versions of an application at different points in time to discover changes in
    • Source code
    • Business rules
    • Table and field definitions
    • Table relationships