Sotoweb

Continuous Quality Monitoring with Sotoweb

Sotoweb provides access to up-to-date quality information for the whole project team. It obtains its information from a repository which is usually maintained and updated by Sotoplatform and Sotograph during nightly batch runs.

Sotoweb is optimized to present information about newly introduced and removed quality problems between two versions of a software system. The data is displayed in dynamically generated HTML pages optimized for Internet Explorer and Firefox. The quality information to be displayed and the way it is aggregated can be configured in XML files. By default Sotoweb provides information about architecture and subsystem interface violations, cyclically coupled artifacts, duplicated code blocks, selected software metric values and coding-level rule violations.

Information about detected problems can be aggregated up to the system level from where it is possible to drill down to the aggregated values for subsystems, packages, files and classes. Multi-step explains are available for any aggregated value. The final explanation step displays in most cases the corresponding source code and highlights the location of the detected problem.

The evolution of any aggregated value can be visualized as trend chart. The chart displayed below shows how many problems the FileInboundIFViol metric detected system wide for four versions of the analyzed software system. The FileInboundIFViol (file inbound interface violations) metric measures the number of illegal external accesses to subsystem private files.