C++ Migration

C++ migration is not an easy task, and the success key of any migration is to use adapted tools to accelerate this process.
The first step before beginning the migration is to analyze the existing code, and detect all project dependencies and complexity to have an idea of time and resources needed for this process. CppDepend provides useful features for this first step, for example dependency graph shows all dependencies:

The matrix view provides a deep view of dependencies:

Using search panel can accelerate searching some interesting informations like complex methods:

During the migration process, we need to know information’s like:

Types used by a specific classes.
Methods used by a specific method.
Types and methods complexity.
Dependency cycles between projects, namespaces and types.
Detect architecture and design lacks in the existing code.

CppDepend helps to answer of all these questions, and CQL is very useful to create customized queries for migration process to accelerate the migration process.