Posted by John Viega on Sun, Aug 31, 2003 (03:42 PM) GMT

Bunch is a clustering tool intended to aid the software developer and maintainer in understanding, verifying and maintaining a source code base. To do this, Bunch lets the user evaluate the quality of an application's modularization, by analyzing the source code graph. Bunch relies solely on the information contained in a module dependency file, considering nodes as program units or modules, such as files or classes, and edges between the nodes as calls or relationships between those modules, such as function calls or inheritance relationships. With this graph, Bunch can find what a "good" clustering for the system is (thus helping when documentation of the code is nonexistent or outdated), and it can also use pre-defined clusters to measure or improve the quality of the system's clustering.