Archsense

Archsense: Visualize Your Software Architecture and Prevent Costly Drift

What is Archsense? Archsense is a software architecture visualization tool designed to enhance software development processes. It delivers accurate and up-to-date architectural representations directly from your source code. This helps developers, team leaders, and architecture professionals gain a comprehensive understanding of their systems, fostering better collaboration and alignment among all stakeholders.

Key Features and Benefits

• Real-Time Architecture Visualization:
  • Generates architecture diagrams directly from the code, ensuring accuracy and eliminating outdated documentation.
  • Provides instant visibility into structural changes with every update.
• Dependency Mapping:
  • Identifies dependencies of every module, including event-based interactions across all projects.
  • Helps teams understand how code changes impact different parts of the system, preventing unexpected side effects.
• Collaboration and Alignment:
  • Facilitates the proposal of new architectural changes within the context of the existing architecture.
  • Allows stakeholders to provide feedback, ensuring everyone is aligned on upcoming changes.
• Deviation Detection:
  • Generates a new architecture snapshot on every commit.
  • Compares the desired architecture with the implemented code and notifies users of significant deviations, preventing costly fixes down the line.

How Archsense Works

1. Integration: Integrate Archsense with your Continuous Integration (CI) system.
2. Analysis: Archsense analyzes the codebase across different languages.
3. Visualization: Builds a layered visualization of your product architecture.
4. Collaboration: Create new building blocks for future features in the context of the existing architecture. Connect them to existing services and request feedback.
5. Progress Tracking: As developers push code, Archsense analyzes the new version, builds a new architecture snapshot, and compares it to the proposed changes, notifying users of any significant deviations.

Who is Archsense for?

Archsense is ideal for:

• Developers: Who need to understand the impact of their code changes on the overall system architecture.
• Team Leaders: Who need to ensure that their teams are aligned on architectural decisions and that the implementation is following the agreed-upon plan.
• Architects: Who need a tool to visualize and communicate the architecture of their systems to stakeholders.

Why Choose Archsense?

• Avoid Architecture Drift: By providing real-time visibility into architectural changes, Archsense helps prevent architecture drift, ensuring that the implemented code matches the intended design.
• Improve Collaboration: Archsense facilitates collaboration among developers, team leaders, and architects, ensuring that everyone is on the same page when it comes to architecture.
• Reduce Costs: By detecting deviations early, Archsense helps prevent costly fixes down the line.

By visualizing your software architecture directly from code, Archsense empowers your team to make informed decisions, collaborate effectively, and prevent costly architecture drift. This leads to higher quality software, faster development cycles, and reduced overall costs.