What is Bunch?
Bunch is a clustering tool intended to aid
the software developer and maintainer in understanding, verifying and maintaining
a source code base. To do this, Bunch lets the user evaluate the quality
of an application’s modularization, by analyzing the source code graph.
Bunch relies solely on the information contained in a module dependency
file, considering nodes as program units or modules, such as files or classes,
and edges between the nodes as calls or relationships between those modules,
such as function calls or inheritance relationships. With this graph, Bunch
can find what a "good" clustering for the system is (thus helping when
documentation of the code is nonexistent or outdated), and it can also
use pre-defined clusters to measure or improve the quality of the system’s
clustering.
To know more about the clustering process,
and what are the uses of Bunch, please consult the on-line
papers.
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