CROSSWAY: 4GL CODE ANALYSIS TOOL

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE IMPACT OF YOUR PROGRESS 4GL CODE?

Crossway is a custom-built 4GL code analysis tool designed specifically for Progress OpenEdge applications.

A visual representation of how your code changes affect and spread throughout your entire application would be invaluable. Crossway gathers cross-reference information from a selected suite of files within your 4GL code and also databases structure and produces several graphical outputs that are easy to understand, both technically and functionally.

This visualization is crucial, especially when your application’s business model demands strict control over released changes.

HOW IT WORKS?

How many of you have faced critical situations due to incomplete test coverage leading to malfunctions or lack of transparency on which functionalities will be impacted by your changes?

How about understanding deep and complex OOP architectures, which are difficult to follow? Or table relationships that need to be considered before writing your code? Or determining the correct package for a new ABL class or interface?

One more: reading the code is fun indeed, but a picture is worth a thousand words, isn’t it?

Crossway’s purpose is to provide solutions for all these situations above through the means of visual diagrams, which can significantly ease your development and testing process.

Knowing the impact of your code changes upfront allows the testing team to accurately estimate the effort required for thorough testing.

Crossway—4GLCode Analysis Tool supports several visual representations for the technical and functional impact of any code change, large or small, reducing the risk of releasing inconsistent functionality: Impact Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Table Relations Diagram, Package Model Diagram, Inherits and Implements Diagrams.