C++ Fact Extractor

Abstract

Maintenance and reusability of code is most important and necessary in software engineering. But this requires much time and resources which increases the cost of the software project. For both the tasks understanding of whole project is necessary. During maintenance and change, developers cannot read the entire code of large systems. They need a way to get a quick understanding of source code entities (such as classes, functions etc.). Keeping this in mind, I have developed a tool which makes understanding of code much easier. This tool gives information about constrains and relationships of C++ source code. It takes a C++ project source code as a whole as input and extracts facts from source code using scanning and parsing process. After being processed, it collects useful information from the code, which makes it very easy to understand code. This tool generates reports in two formats one is TEXT and the other is XML file.