Reading Code - helpful visualizers and browser tools
- by wishi_
Hi!
I find myself reading 10 times more code than writing. My IDEs all are optimized to make me edit code - with completion, code assist, outlines etc. However if I'm checking out a completely new project: getting into the application's logics isn't optimized with these IDE features. Because I cannot extend what I don't fully understand.
If you for example check out a relatively new project, frama-c, you realize that it has got plugins that are helpful to gain insight into "unfamiliar code": http://frama-c.com/plugins.html - However of course the project has a different scope. What I'm fully aware of.
I'm looking for something that does helpful things for code-reading. Like:
providing a graph, - reverse engineering UML e g.,
showing variable scopes
showing which parts are affected by attempted modifications
visualizing data-flow semantics
showing tag-lists of heavily utilized functions
...
My hope is that something like that exists. - That there're some Eclipse plugins I don't know or that there's a code-browser that has some of these features?
