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Overview For security reasons, Embold will be deprecating the usage of passwords. To ensure your data is up to date, we encourage you to change your authentication to utilize the personal access tokens. What is changing? Embold will discontinue password authentication from September end (RELEASE 1.8.5.0.). You will have to…
Projects are what Embold uses to store and manage your code; they contain the repositories you link to Embold. You can create as many projects as you need and can add as many repositories to it as you like. For today’s tutorial, we’ll be creating a single project and linking…
When to use the partitioning editor There are many issues that are a result of classes being too large. This can range from components that are slightly above the recommended lines of code threshold (like StrSubstitutor) to large components with non–cohesive functionality (like God Classes). A common strategy for dealing…
After navigating to the Component Explorer of a certain component, the Dependency View can be accessed via the top menu: The Dependency View can show all incoming or outgoing dependencies of one component. Outgoing dependencies are describing the components that are used by the current component, incoming dependencies show which…
Before you get started Before starting this tutorial, make sure you have:1. An active Embold account (Don’t have one? Sign up free here).2. Gone through your First Scan and Identifying Problems, and Assessing Changes. Improving Hotspots article builds off the lessons learned in these previous articles. Analysing the component rating In…
Using the Changed Component List The Your First Scan article shows how to use the Change Overview to quickly assess the impact of code changes; this part shows how to analyze detailed changes and their impact. To see this, click on the Changed Component List icon in the navigation bar:…
Before you get started Before starting this article, make sure you have:1. An active Embold account (Don’t have one? Sign up free here).2. Gone through Your First Scan and Identifying Problems. Assessing Changes builds off of the lessons learned in the previous articles. To get the most out of this…
The previous sections showed how to identify potential low-quality components that need more attention, either through the Heatmap or the Component List. In this section, the focus is on two different aspects:1. Identifying problematic packages2. Identifying problem classes that lead to bad quality What are the available Distribution Screens? The…
What does the component list show? The component list can be accessed from the Node Summary bar by clicking on the list icon: You will be redirected to a page that shows a list of all components of your software sorted by ascending Overall Score. The components with the worst…
What Does the Heatmap Show? The Heatmap can be accessed from the top navigation bar by clicking the box icon next to the fire icon: Clicking on it will bring you to the Heatmap page, which shows the main components of your repository. Each component is represented as a rectangle, where…
