Direct Dependencies Out

API ID: CountDirectDepsOut
Languages: Any
Targets: Architectures

Number of other architectures this architecture's own entities depend on.

Dependencies from descendants only are not counted. Dependencies from this level to children or to outside architectures both count.

In the sample below, for "project", only main.cpp is a direct entity. main.cpp depends on api.cpp (child project/api), ui.cpp (child project/ui), and library1.cpp (libraries/library1), so CountDirectDepsOut is 3. api.cpp and ui.cpp are not counted because they are descendants.

Compare to CountDepsOut, which counts those same partners and in addition partners reached only by descendant 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