What are the open source alternatives to Lattix?

Question

I have gotten the opportunity to work with Lattix in the past. I believe the paradigm it represents (a hierarchical dependency matrix) is the future of large-scale system a

Answer 1

You could try the open source tooling at https://dsmsuite.github.io/. I developed the DSM tooling because I like the DSM approach, but hardly any open source tooling was available. It supports C/C++ (based on file includes) Java and .net (both based on import binaries)

Answer 2

There are some open source tools that implement the core functionality of Lattix, DSM (Design or Dependency Structure Matrix) listed here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_Structure_Matrix

The recent release of dtangler 2.0 has an something in its release notes you might find interesting:

dtangler 2.0.0. is released! The major new feature is the ability to read dependency information from a plaintext file. In other words: it's not just for java - now you can generate a dependency structure matrix that describes whatever you want!

Answer 3

It is not a free tool (299 euros for a personnal license) but the tool NDepend comes with a Dependency Graph coupled with a Dependency Matrix. Disclaimer: I am one of the developers of the tool

Here are some screenshots:

Answer 4

SonarQube has a free dependency analyzer (in my experience, less useful than Lattix). You can add the Package Design widget to the dashboard and drill down. Instructions can be found here.

Answer 5

If you or the companies you work for happen to use (the non free) IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and Java, you can use its Dependency Structure Matrix.

Answer 6

For a simple project, I found MaDGe - Module Dependency Graph.

Install with npm

npm -g install madge

List dependencies of all *.js files in directory src

madge path/src 

Find circular dependencies of a particular file app.js

madge --circular path/src/app.js

There's also a graphing functionality, but I don't have that up and running yet.