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dependency-analysis
- Aug 30, 2026 Dependency Structure Matrices and the Cost of a Cycle How a square matrix over modules exposes layering and reachability at a glance, how partitioning recovers a build order, and what a cycle costs once it is found. software architecture
- Jun 28, 2026 Change-Based Test Selection and Where It Stops Being Sound How dependency graphs and per-test coverage traces map a diff to a subset of tests, why dynamic selection cannot see new coverage gaps, and why selection tools fail open. developer tools
- Sep 13, 2025 Instability, Abstractness, and Distance from the Main Sequence How afferent and efferent coupling produce two ratios per package, why their sum locates a package in a zone of pain or uselessness, and where the arithmetic stops being informative. software architecture
- Jan 20, 2025 Mapping Runtime Dependencies from Traffic and Query Logs Why static call graphs miss the dependencies that decide whether a legacy component can be removed, and how to reconstruct the real graph from query logs, flow records, and scheduler output. software architecture