Comments on: Coding: Effect sketches and the Mikado method

By: Mikado-ish method for debugging | DotNeter(Asp.NETer)

Mikado-ish method for debugging | DotNeter(Asp.NETer) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:04:40 +0000

[...] written previously about the Mikado method and how I’ve made use of it for identifying ways in… but I think this approach is more generally applicable for any kind of code [...]

By: Mikado-ish method for debugging at Mark Needham

Mikado-ish method for debugging at Mark Needham — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:21:27 +0000

[...] written previously about the Mikado method and how I've made use of it for identifying ways in which… but I think this approach is more generally applicable for any kind of code [...]

By: Mentions of the Mikado Method « Home of the Mikado Method

Mentions of the Mikado Method « Home of the Mikado Method — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:47:34 +0000

[...] http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2010/02/23/coding-effect-sketches-and-the-mikado-method/ [...]

By: Jason Diamond

Jason Diamond — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:21:37 +0000

I’ve used NRefactory to parse C# source files before. It’s not well documented, but it was easy enough to figure out. I got the DLLs from SharpDevelop since it doesn’t seem to have a project of its own that I could find.

While playing around with NDepend 3′s new Visual Studio integration, I found that you could right-click on any class and select “View internal dependencies on graph”. It shows both method and field dependencies, so it can get much busier than the graph you created, but it’s still very convenient.

I promise I’m not an NDepend salesman. =)

By: Linear Way of Thinking « Updates from a continuous developer

Linear Way of Thinking « Updates from a continuous developer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:20:08 +0000

[...] remember K most of the time, the starter, but then all becomes complicated. Thanks to Mark’s blog on sketches, and Graphviz group at AT&T. My graph is not depending on real data, but I tried to make it [...]

By: Mark Needham

Mark Needham — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:53:31 +0000

I haven’t used Refactory before, gonna have a look at that. I think you’re probably right though – there is certainly some benefit in drawing it out by hand but perhaps the time it takes to do that is outweighed by what you could do with a tool.

By: Jason Diamond

Jason Diamond — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:45:13 +0000

Thanks for the link to the Mikado method.

I found a query in NDepend that looks for types that aren’t cohesive. They describe it here:

http://www.ndepend.com/Metrics.aspx#LCOM

It’s not quite the same because this identifies types and not methods, but it might get you close enough.

Perhaps a small tool that uses NRefactory could parse your source and generate dot files so that you don’t have to do it by hand.