CheckDep: A Tool for Tracking Software Dependencies

Objectives

• Diff Tool on Dependency Level
  
  Many software developers use a syntactical 'diff' in order to perform a quick review before committing changes to the repository. Other developers are notified of the change by e-mail (containing diffs or change logs), and they review the received information to determine if their work is affected. We lift this simple process from the code level to the more abstract level of dependencies: a software developer can use CheckDep to inspect introduced and removed dependencies before committing new versions, and other developers receive summaries of the changed dependencies via e-mail. We find the tool useful in our software-development activities and would like to make the tool available to others. Our tool does not claim any novel concept, and is considered a purely practical contribution.

Download

• CheckDep is free software (Apache 2.0 License)
  
  
• Current release: version 1.0.0
  Windows, Linux
  

Documentation

• Manual
• Screenshots / Quick Tutorial
  

Acknowledgements

• CCVisu
• SVNKit
• Dependency Finder *