Lattix Architect User Guide

Lattix provides a number of programs:

• Lattix Architect:

  Graphical User interface to the Lattix program. Use this to visually create and manage projects.

• Lattix Web:

  You can publish Lattix Architect projects for browser access by populating a repository using Lattix Architect and LDC. The repository includes a web server and application that then allows you to use your browser to display trends as well as data about individual snapshots.

• Automate (Command Line Applications/LDC):

  Use these utilities to create and update projects and to generate reports. They are also useful for automating architecture conformance verification and for publishing the results to the repository.

• API and Scripts:

  You can also extend Lattix Architect using the API and Scripts. Check the Script Catalog to see the scripts that are currently available.

You can integrate Lattix Architect into Eclipse and Visual Studio.

Lattix Architect supports a number of languages, databases and frameworks. Each of these is a module. The Module Guide describes each of the modules.

• Lattix Architect User Interface
  • Tool Bar Icons
  • Home Pane
  • Navigator Pane
  • Repository Pane
  • Usage Property Pane
  • Configuring Preferences
    • Grid Appearance
    • Grid Colors
    • Line Colors
    • Cell Indicator Colors
    • Subsystem Appearance
    • External Viewer Configuration
      • External Source Viewer
      • Source Directory Map
    • Dependency Options
    • Logging
    • Scripting (directories)
    • Checkers
    • Metrics
    • Statistics
    • Configuring Module Defaults
• Create a New Project
• Managing Lattix Architect Projects
  • Open a Project
  • Update a Project
    • How to Update a Project
    • Update Options
      • Discard Current Partitions
      • Create Tags for New/Changed Items
      • Display Report
      • Produce Detailed Report
  • Create a Compound Project
• Working with the Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM)
  • Creating a DSM
  • Configuring Cell Identity Style
    • Understanding the Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM)
    • Manipulating the DSM
      • Editing the DSM
      • Drag-n-Drop
    • Applying Algorithms within a DSM
• Working with the Conceptual Architecture Diagram (CAD)
  • Creating a CAD
  • Options for Line Display
    • Understanding the Conceptual Architecture Diagram
    • Manipulating the Conceptual Architecture Diagram
    • Moving a Box Relative to Another Box
    • Moving a Box to a New Layer
    • Resizing a Box
    • Manipulating the Empty Space
  • Removing Empty Vertical Space
  • Removing Empty Horizontal Space
    • Other Operations
    • Applying Algorithms within Conceptual Architecture Diagrams
    • Setting Rules with the Conceptual Architecture Diagram
• Working with the Heatmap
  • Viewing a Heatmap.
    • Heatmap Grid
    • Single metric heatmap
  • Adding metrics to the Heatmap
• Applying Algorithms
  • Partitioning and Clustering Algorithms
    • Partitioning Algorithms
    • Other Options
  • Restructuring Algorithms
  • Other Algorithms
• Monitoring and Enforcing Architecture
  • Specifying Design Rules
    • Design Rules for External Systems
    • Using the Add Dialog
    • Rules using the DSM
    • Rules using the Conceptual Architecture Diagram
  • Export and Import Rules
• Member Level Analysis
  • Creating a Project with Members Specified Explicitly
• Filtering and Configuring Dependencies and Subsystems
  • Filtering Dependencies
  • Configuring Dependency Strength
  • Hiding Subsystems and Dependencies
  • Using Tags to Hide Subsystems and Dependencies
  • Active Filter Visibility
  • Adding and Deleting Manual Dependencies
• Data Export and Reporting
  • Export
  • Reports
    • Public Elements Report
    • Private Elements Report
    • Unused Elements Report
    • Impact Report
    • Uses Report
    • Detailed External Use Report
    • Cycles Reports
    • Metrics Reports
    • Other Reports
      • External Use
      • Violations
      • Worklist
      • Rules
      • Flagged cells
      • Largest Atoms
      • Largest Compound Package
      • Largest Package
      • Cyclomatic Complexity
    • Global Variable Report
    • Update Report
• Tagging and Impact Analysis
  • Manual Tags
  • Search Tags (or Tags with a Criteria)
    • Examples of Perl Style Regular Expression
  • Impact Tags
  • Compound Tags
• Multi-Module Projects
  • Create a New Multi Module Project
  • Add Module into a Current Project
• Match Model
  • Creating a Project
  • Matching and Validating Elements
• Metrics
  • System Metrics
    • Counts
      • Lines of Code
      • Compiled Code Size
      • Class Count, Interface Count
      • Header File Count, Source File Count
      • Cyclomatic Complexity
      • Total Elements
  • Architecture Metrics
    • Sizing up the System
      • Atom Count
      • Complexity
      • Internal Dependencies
      • Average Dependency
    • Sensitivity to Change
      • System Stability
      • Average Impact
    • Degree of Connectedness
      • Average Cumulative Dependency
      • Normalized Cumulative Dependency
      • Connectedness
      • Connectedness Enrichment
      • Connectedness Strength
    • Pairwise Coupling
      • Coupling
      • Coupling Enrichment
      • Coupling Strength
    • Cyclicality
      • System Cyclicality
      • Intercomponent Cyclicality
      • Path Ratio
      • Path Complexity
      • Many-to-Many Strength
    • Other
      • Violations
      • Pagerank (not currently available)
      • Clustering (not currently available)
    • Limits on Project Size and Overcoming the Limit
    • Too much Recursion in Tarjan
    • Metrics for Certain Well-known Systems
  • Object Oriented Metrics
    • Robert Martin Metrics
      • Instability
      • Abstractness
      • Distance
      • Incoming Dependencies
      • Atom Count
      • Abstract Atom Count
• Architectural Category Tags and Risk Metric
  • Risk Metric
• Importing MISRA/AUTOSAR violations into Lattix
• Importing code coverage data into Lattix
• Support for Android APK files/AAR
  • Loading APK files
  • Loading AAR files
• Find Issues
  • Find Issues User Interface
  • List of Checkers
    • C/C++ Checkers
    • Java and .NET Checkers
• Visual Studio Integration
  • Visual Studio Extension
  • Lattix Extension for Visual Studio
    • Installing the extension
    • Using the extension
      • Add Lattix Post Build Update
      • Launch Lattix Architect For Solution
  • Using the Studio Editor
    • View Source Integration
  • Manual Configuration
    • Command Line Integration