Dependencies Out

API ID: CountDepsOut
Languages: Any
Targets: Architectures

Number of other architectures this one (or its descendants) depends on.

Any dependency from this subtree to another architecture counts, so "out" counts all dependency partners outside this subtree.

In the sample below, for "project", dependencies go to "libraries/library1" (from main.cpp and api.cpp) and "libraries/library2" (from ui.cpp), so CountDepsOut is 2.

Compare to CountDirectDepsOut (only partners reached by this architecture's own entities) and CountMajorDepsOut (partners grouped by parent).

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