CppDepend 2017 Release

With 2017.3, launching the analysis from within Visual Studio gets the build specification using the Visual Studio API for more reliable results.

It's now possible to exclude some files from the analysis for more targeted code quality assessment.

Many resources and videos are available to help you learn about a wide range of CppDepend capabilities.

The Abstractness vs Instability diagram in the report is now a JavaScript interactive control.

Hovering over a dot shows the corresponding project name and values.

A search textbox lets you filter a subset of projects by name.

Develop your custom CQLinq extensions using the API for more flexibility.

Easily define new metrics by adding extension methods for Application, Project, Type, Method, and Field.

Define extensions to reuse query logic or entire rules.

CppDepend licensing moved to a yearly subscription model.

3 to 4 important releases per year instead of one major release every 18 months.

Perpetual fallback license for the exact version available at the time of purchase.

Up to 40% discount for continuous subscription.

Rules can assign technical debt and annual interest values to issues.

Technical debt = estimated man-time to fix the issue.

Annual interest = estimated man-time consumed per year if left unfixed.

Issues have severity levels: blocker, critical, major, minor, info.

Dashboard shows estimated Debt values and evolution since baseline.

CQLinq can now write quality gates to fail builds when thresholds are violated.

Monitor any fact concerning code, technical-debt, rules and issues.

Quality gates can rely on differences since the baseline (diff).

11 quality gates provided by default.

New Issues menu offers actionable options to list issues by priority.

Browse debt and issues per rule or per code element.

Quality gates, rules and issues numbers shown on the dashboard — all clickable.

List issues with particular severity, added or fixed since the baseline.

Hovering over an issue displays a complete description.

CppDepend 2017.1 supports Visual Studio 2017.

Also supports Visual Studio 2015, 2013, 2012 and 2010.

New queryable domains: QualityGates, Issues, IssuesInBaseline, Rules.

New syntax to write quality gates.

Run the currently edited code query against the baseline.

Queries can return code elements of various kinds: projects, namespaces, types, methods, fields.

Return technical debt values: Debt, AnnualInterest, DebtRating, Severity, TrendIcon.

Colour scale on query result metric values for easy comparison.

Simplified queries like Methods or JustMyCode.CodeElements.

All default rules include debt/interest estimation formulas.

CWE rules added to the default rules.

New rules for Memory Management, STL, and IO usage.

Dashboards improved in CppDepend UI, Visual Studio, and generated reports.

Contains technical debt estimations, quality gates, rules and issues data.

Visual indicator shows progression since baseline.

Red and green coloured values pinpoint progress or regression.

Any stored baseline can be applied from the dashboard with a single click.

New projects have baseline settings set to 30 days ago by default.

Rules and Quality Gates executed against both current and baseline analysis results.

Search panel matches code elements added, refactored or removed since baseline.

Report dashboard contains information on debt and issues.

Main section shows Quality Gates status summary.

Rules Summary shows issues added and fixed per rule.

Green/red colour scale on code coverage values.