Hi Aaron,
Just took a second look at this. It would be great to eventually integrate something
like XRadar into our daily build process. And the animated Kiviat chart stuff is a great
idea! It will be quite interesting to compare/contrast this kind of analysis with
telemetry (I think there will be pros and cons to each approach; they are complementary,
not competitive.)
In terms of Hackystat analyses, one of the things I want to move aggressively toward once
7.0 is out is to eliminate the last vestiges of Java-orientation from our standard
analyses. There are several parts to this: (a) make Workspace Maps optional, not
required, for things like Unit Tests, (b) make SCLC the standard size counting mechanism,
and count multiple language types (.java, .el, .cc, .html, .xml, etc.) and (c) update
our standard analyses (DailyProjectData, Reduction Functions) to be both
_language-neutral_ and _multi-language aware_. By "language neutral", I mean that our
system does not prefer any particular language over any other. By "multi-language
aware", I mean that all of our analyses are designed to operate in a context of a system
that is written in several different languages.
Once all of that is in place, then I would like to see us look at XRadar from the
perspective of what kinds of useful analyses they are doing that we could support in a
language-neutral and multi-language aware mode.
Cheers,
Philip
--On Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:52 PM -1000 Aaron Kagawa <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Guys,
I found one of the coolest open source tools ever! Its called XRadar
(http://xradar.sourceforge.net/). Actually, my friend at work found it.
"The XRadar is an open extensible code report tool currently supporting all
Java based
systems. The batch-processing framework produces HTML/SVG reports of the systems
current state and the development over time - all presented in sexy tables and
graphs.
It gets results from several brilliant open source projects and a couple of in
house
grown projects and presents the results as massive unified html/svg reports. The
architecture is based on java, xml and xsl."
I ended up integrating XRadar with hackyCore_Kernel. A task that took a while
:) ..
Anyway, the result was well worth the effort!
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Check out this XRadar report of hackyCore_Kernel
http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/~kagawaa/xradar/docs/
You need to have SVG support in your web browser. The only plugin I could find
is
http://www.adobe.com/svg/main.html , I couldn't find one for FireFox. Anyway,
install
that SFG Viewer and use IE for once.
Check out some really cool reports:
- click on the packages for package overview reports (ie,
org.hackystat.core.kernel.admin)
- click on the classes for class overview reports (ie, Alert,
AnalysisInvocation)
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Check out : http://xradar.sourceforge.net/reports/dynamics/index.html
Isn't this telemetry? Haha cool! BUT! we can do better, see below.
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Everything is not perfect yet:
- missing module metrics
1) see http://xradar.sourceforge.net/reports/release4/index.html
2) click on "A module" in the top left corner under subsystems.
3) scroll down.
4) notice the metric values
5) see http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/~kagawaa/xradar/docs/
6) do repeat steps 2-4, except click on "admin module"
7) notice the missing metric values
- i don't really understand the concept of the modules. and i guess i didn't
configure
it correctly, notice that the modules have all the same Chart! oh well....
- no clue on how to run this on more that one module (ie. hackyCore_Installer,
hackyCore_Common, etc).
- no clue on how to extend XRadar to use Emma coverage values, Locc, etc.
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Next Steps:
- figure out the above problems
- basically, the current functionality can go into the V7 build process
already. but,
only for hackyCore_Kernel until i figure out how to run it on the whole system.
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Kiviat Charts in Hackystat!
I was thinking that these Charts (apparently called Kiviat Charts,
http://www.soft.com/Products/Screen/kiviat.html) would be really cool in
Hackystat.
Instead of using this XRadar tool, Hackystat could be generating these. The
problem
with XRadar is that the charts are more-or-less static. And, I have to run all
the
generation tools (ie, checkstyle, pmd, etc) each time, which maybe acceptable
for a
daily build or something. But, the problem is that they need a snapshot of the
code to
be able to see a chart from a month ago. In Hackystat these charts can be
created
dynamically using our stored metrics! Also, if we wanted to get really crazy
we could
animate these SVG charts to "play back" the development process!! WOW!
Can JFreeChart generate Kiviat Charts?
Answered my own question:
http://www.jfree.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=36352&highlight=&sid=5fce0cebaef005e0630373
b81190c022#36352
Many research questions arise... How does Animated Hackystat Kiviat Charts
compare to
Telemetry?
By the way, does this look like a promising tool to use? haha...YES!
Oh, and here is the ant execution of xradar in hackyCore_Build
http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/~kagawaa/xradar/docs/commandprompt-xradar.txt
thanks, aaron
