Sourcetrail
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| Sourcetrail | |
|---|---|
| Developer | The Sourcetrail Development Team |
| Stable release | 2021.4.19
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| Operating system | Multiplatform |
| Type | Software quality |
| License | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| Repository | github |
Sourcetrail was a FOSS source code explorer that provided interactive dependency graphs and support for multiple programming languages including C, C++, Java and Python.[1]
The project was started by Eberhard Gräther after an internship at Google where he worked on Google Chrome, and noticed that he consumed a lot of time (1 month) to implement a simple feature that he expected to be done in 1–2 hours. This was his motivation to develop a tool that helps in understanding the consequences of source code modifications.[2] The project started as a commercial project in 2016 under the name Coati.[3] In November 2019, Sourcetrail was released as open-source software under version three of the GNU General Public License.[4]
The project was discontinued in 2021.[5]
Concept
Most of a programmer's time is invested in reading the source code.[6][7] Therefore, Sourcetrail was intended to help the developers to understand the source code and the relationship between different components. Sourcetrail builds a dependency graph after indexing the source code files and provides a graphical overview of the source code.
