CppDepend

CppDepend is a complex application, designed to help you manage the code in your C/C++ projects and improve its organization. It can measure software quality and display useful information using graphs and treemaps.

While it is aimed at professional software developers, the application is easy-to-use and features an intuitive and well-designed interface.

CppDepend uses multiple methods to analyze your project, to help you find ways to improve it. You can view the number of lines of code, which is a rough estimation of the project's complexity, but the application can also examine more complex factors.

Some methods analyze the code's organization (number of classes, namespaces and methods declared in a class), while others measure code quality, by evaluating its complexity, number of parameters, cohesion of classes, stability of projects and many other factors.

It can be difficult to keep track of changes made to a project's code base between multiple builds. CppDepend can help you view the differences between them, allowing you to closely monitor modifications.

The application can differentiate between code and comment changes, as well as between what has been modified and added or removed.

When writing code, it is best to avoid dependencies between various components, as this can cause issues if some of them are modified or removed and defeats the purpose of splitting the code into multiple elements.

CppDepend can detect these cycles and help you find the best way to remove them. It can also continuously check your project and warn you when dependencies are accidentally created.

If you are looking for a comprehensive tool that can help you analyze the code in your projects and improve its quality, you should try CppDepend. It offers numerous analysis methods, can display useful information using treemaps and diagrams, detect dependency cycles and compare project builds.