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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Thinking Craftsman Toolkit on Google code

I have created a project named 'Thinking Craftsman Toolkit (TC Toolkit)' on Google code. Currently it includes three small tools
  1. Code Duplication Detector (CDD)
    Code duplication detector is similar to Copy Paste Detector (CPD) or Simian. It uses Pygments Lexer to parse the source files and uses Rabin Karp algorithm to detect the duplicates. Hence it supports all languages supported by Pygments.

  2. Token Tag Cloud (TTC)
    Sometime back I read a blog article 'See How Noisy Your Code Is'. TTC is tool for creating various tag clouds based on token types (e.g. keywords, names, classnames etc).

  3. Sourcemonitor Treemap Viewer (SMTreemap)
    Source Monitor is an excellent tool to generate various metrics from the source code (e.g. maxium complexity, averge compelxity, line count, block depth etc). However, it is difficult to quickly analyse this data for large code bases. Treemaps are excellent to visualize the hierarchical data on two dimensions (as size and color). This tool uses Tkinter to display the SourceMonitor data as treemap. You have to export the source monitor data as CSV or XML. smtreemap.py can then use this CSV or XML file as input to display the treemap
There is no installer or setup file yet. You can get the tools by checking out the source from the SVN repository.

As I promised in the last blog post on 'Writing Code Duplication Detector', source for Code Duplication Detector is now released as part of TC Toolkit project.