{"id":116,"date":"2012-03-12T20:32:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.qualilogy.com\/en\/?p=116"},"modified":"2013-01-04T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:45:22","slug":"city-model-new-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/city-model-new-release\/","title":{"rendered":"City Model – New release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember that I got a nice Christmas gift<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It was the Sonar plugin City Model made by eXcentia and they have released a new version<\/a>. This will let us the opportunity to show how to customize your own dashboard with Sonar.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>This is what looks my application after I installed the plugin. Remember you can go in every three directions using your mouse, to turn the ‘City’ horizontally, vertically, or to get closer or away.<\/p>\n

The installation of the plugin is quite easy: you download it and save it into the directory ‘\\extensions\\plugins’ of Sonar. Then you stop\/start Sonar to be able to use it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In order to get the ‘City’ into your dashboard, you login as an administrator so that when you select one project and display its dashboard, you now have a menu that allows you to personalize it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Let’s click on ‘Configure widgets’ to display the list of all the widgets to customize your dashboard. Here is the one to add the City Model. Just click on ‘Add widget’ to get a city representing your application.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now, with the plugin of eXcentia comes another widget – City Model Top – that lists a determined number of classes according to the value you choose. And I find that really useful.<\/p>\n

When you meet a person for the first time, the first thing you look at is her size and you could get a pretty fine idea of it very easily. Same with an application, code size measured in LOC is a very easy measure to get, and this is the default value used when you add the City Model Top.<\/p>\n

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Then, you could try to evaluate the weight of this person or, for an application, its complexity. As it is not as easy to guess, you would probably have to ask this person in order to know its weight, as you need a code analysis tool to evaluate the Cyclomatic Complexity (CC) for an application.<\/p>\n

In order to do that, you just have to add again a City Model Top widget and to change its parameters by clicking the ‘Edit’ button.<\/p>\n

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Here we have entered our own values:<\/p>\n