Sourcetrail was a FOSSsource code explorer that provided interactive dependency graphs and support for multiple programming languages including C, C++, Java and Python.[1]
The project was started by Eberhard Gräther after an internship at Google where he worked on Google Chrome, and noticed that he consumed a lot of time (1 month) to implement a simple feature that he expected to be done in 1–2 hours. This was his motivation to develop a tool that helps in understanding the consequences of source code modifications.[2] The project started as a commercial project in 2016 under the name Coati.[3] In November 2019, Sourcetrail was released as open-source software under version three of the GNU General Public License.[4]
Most of a programmer's time is invested in reading the source code.[citation needed] Therefore, Sourcetrail is intended to help the developers to understand the source code and the relationship between different components. Sourcetrail builds a dependency graph after indexing the source code files and provides a graphical overview of the source code.
It is built in an extendable way, so it could be extended to support more programming languages.
sourcetrail, foss, source, code, explorer, that, provided, interactive, dependency, graphs, support, multiple, programming, languages, including, java, python, developer, development, teamstable, release2021, 19repositoryhttps, github, coatisoftware, operating. Sourcetrail was a FOSS source code explorer that provided interactive dependency graphs and support for multiple programming languages including C C Java and Python 1 SourcetrailDeveloper s The Sourcetrail Development TeamStable release2021 4 19Repositoryhttps github com CoatiSoftware SourcetrailOperating systemMultiplatformTypeSoftware qualityLicenseGNU General Public License v3 0 Contents 1 History 2 Concept 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory editThe project was started by Eberhard Grather after an internship at Google where he worked on Google Chrome and noticed that he consumed a lot of time 1 month to implement a simple feature that he expected to be done in 1 2 hours This was his motivation to develop a tool that helps in understanding the consequences of source code modifications 2 The project started as a commercial project in 2016 under the name Coati 3 In November 2019 Sourcetrail was released as open source software under version three of the GNU General Public License 4 The project was discontinued in 2021 5 Concept editMost of a programmer s time is invested in reading the source code citation needed Therefore Sourcetrail is intended to help the developers to understand the source code and the relationship between different components Sourcetrail builds a dependency graph after indexing the source code files and provides a graphical overview of the source code It is built in an extendable way so it could be extended to support more programming languages See also editSoftware visualizationReferences edit Krill Paul November 21 2019 Sourcetrail code navigator now free open source InfoWorld Why working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code 10 January 2017 Coati Release 0 6 Sourcetrail Developer Blog Sourcetrail is now free and open source software Sourcetrail Developer Blog https web archive org web 20211115131149 https www sourcetrail com blog discontinue sourcetrail Blog post on discontinuing Sourcetrail External links editArchived Repository nbsp Free and open source software portal nbsp Computer programming portal nbsp This programming tool related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sourcetrail amp oldid 1192836033, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
