Softagram

Very useful tool for software comprehension

Comments: In general, this is the best tool I've used so far on visualizing and exploring Reverse Engineering Diagrams.
I wish to collaborate and contribute by adding more software metrics, layouting strategies.

Pros:

- Easy too use - Very good navigation & interaction mechanism - Rich information on associations between classes - Highlighting base on rich source of metrics

Cons:

- As a normal user, one cannot use to tool to reverse engineer a project himself/herself. If you cannot yet provide that function to users, please set a button for us to create requests on the projects we would like to analyse. - Lack of API/mechanism for customizing the metrics (for example, adding one or more metrics). - Lack of choices of layout of the diagrams.

Awesome product

Comments: Great company and great product.

Pros:

Softagram helps organizing large codebases into visible, understandable blocks and thus greatly saves time when starting to work on existing codebase which happens a lot.

Cons:

Maybe there were some details that are like quite difficult to use from end user perspective but these are still new features that are under development. The company has showed during many years that it fixes and improves the product as we go.

great tool

Pros:

I love visualizations, and this is a really nice tool to instantly see our dependencies

Cons:

It's quite difficult to integrate with our own processes, but the problem is in our own (old) systems.

Code review tool that needs some polishing

Comments: We used Softagram in one of our projects. It was mostly used on the backend as it has more need for it than the frontend. The staff at Softagram were very helpful and showed us how to use the software and answered our questions.

Pros:

It helps you see your projects dependencies and make sure you don't break anything. The automated dependency tree comments when you make a pull request is also handy

Cons:

The user interface is pretty dated and complicated to use and doesn't work well with absolute paths.

Good Product

Comments: Overall the product helped our organisation better manage our codebase.

Pros:

Helps understanding and managing large codebases easier.

Cons:

The product could be a little easier to use at first glance.

Helpful with good support

Pros:

Was able to get rolling within minutes. Easy to navigate.

Cons:

Design could have been cleaner, but that's nitpicking.

Easy once familiar

Pros:

The support team is friendly and helpful. Helped me to maneuver a lot of issues I was having with deploying my code.

Cons:

Takes time to understand because of the interface.

Softagram in SW development

Pros:

Shows nicely SW relationships and is quite fast on it

Cons:

Did not understand our SW flow so not so usable in our use case

Makes life of Software Developers easier

Pros:

- shows the dependency tree up to the lowest function - color coding to show where most number of check-ins are made

Cons:

- no support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Familiarizing to a new code base made easy

Pros:

Softagram makes it is to familiariaze yourself with new code bases.

Cons:

There is some usability issues in the form of iconography; sensible easy to understand icons in this context are hard to come by. Learning basics of the used metrics that are visualized are sort of "required" to gain maximum learning benefits.