Dependency References Out

API ID: CountDepRefsOut
Languages: Any
Targets: Architectures

Total number of dependency references from this architecture or its descendants to other architectures.

Counts every reference, not just the number of partner architectures.

In the sample below, for "project", references out to libraries are 8 (main.cpp→library1) + 6 (api.cpp→library1) + 4 (ui.cpp→library2), so CountDepRefsOut is 18.

Compare to CountDepsOut (number of partner architectures) and CountDirectDepRefsOut (references only from this architecture's own entities).

Consider a directory-style architecture and dependencies:

• project
  • api
    • api.cpp
  • ui
    • ui.cpp
  • main.cpp
• libraries
  • library1
    • ibrary1.cpp
  • library2
    • library2.cpp
• tests
  • main
    • main_test.cpp
  • api
    • api_test.cpp

Dependencies (with reference counts):

1. main.cpp → api.cpp (3 refs)
2. main.cpp → ui.cpp (9 refs)
3. main.cpp → library1.cpp (8 refs)
4. api.cpp → library1.cpp (6 refs)
5. ui.cpp → library2.cpp (4 refs)
6. ui.cpp → api.cpp (2 refs)
7. main_test.cpp → main.cpp (7 refs)
8. api_test.cpp → api.cpp (5 refs)

For project, the metrics are:

Metric	Value
CountDepsIn	2
CountDepsOut	2
CountDepRefsIn	12
CountDepRefsOut	18
CountDirectDepsIn	1
CountDirectDepsOut	3
CountDirectDepRefsIn	7
CountDirectDepRefsOut	20
CountMajorDepsIn	1
CountMajorDepsOut	1