Sourcetrail

Sourcetrail is a Free Open-Source source code explorer that provide interactive dependency graphs and support many programming languages including C, C++, Java and Python. Also it could be extended to support more programming languages.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Sourcetrail
Developer(s)The Sourcetrail Development Team
Stable release
2020.2.43
Operating systemMultiplatform
TypeSoftware quality
LicenseGNU General Public License v3.0
Websitewww.sourcetrail.com

History

The project started by Eberhard Gräther after an internship at Google where he worked on Google Chrome and consumed a lot of time (1 month) to implement a simple feature that he expected to be done in 1–2 hours. The complexity of understanding large code-base by new developers was his motivation to develop a tool that help in understanding the consequences of source code modifications.[8]

The project started as a commercial project in 2016 under the name (Coati)[9]

In November 2019, Sourcetrail becomes an open-source project [10]

Concept

Sourcetrail provides graphical overview of the source code. The tool build a dependency graph after indexing the source code files. Most of programmers time are invested in reading the source code. the goal behind this tools is helping the developers to understand the source code and the relationship between different components.

See also

References
  1. Krill, Paul (November 21, 2019). "Sourcetrail code navigator now free open source". InfoWorld.
  2. Das, Ankush. "The Cross-Platform Source Explorer Sourcetrail is Now Open Source - It's FOSS".
  3. "Sourcetrail, an interactive source code explorer, becomes open source". November 20, 2019.
  4. "Sourcetrail promises to help software engineers explore, navigate & understand unknown source code quickly". November 16, 2018.
  5. "L'outil d'exploration de code Sourcetrail passe en open source - Le Monde Informatique". LeMondeInformatique.
  6. "Sourcetrail: Tool zur Code-Visualisierung wird Open Source". November 20, 2019.
  7. "ソースコード検索エンジン「Sourcetrail」OSS化、GitHub上で公開". CodeZine.
  8. https://medium.com/@egraether/why-working-on-chrome-made-me-develop-a-tool-for-reading-source-code-7111ba21a6f0
  9. "Coati Release 0.6". Sourcetrail Developer Blog.
  10. "Sourcetrail is now free and open-source software". Sourcetrail Developer Blog.


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