[Soft question] Tips and tools to analyze unfamiliar OO code

What are your tips / Are there any tools to:

Get a quick overview of undocumented but well structured and named OO code?

I am thinking e.g. of automatic graphs showing the class hierarchies and methods therein.

[per isakson]

Search FEX for UML

Warning: Regarding m2uml you need to edit the code in a couple of places in accourdance with descriptions in the comments.

[Joan Vazquez]

Thanks, very nice package! I already used it to create some useful UML diagrams.

As you mention, the question is: "Can m2uml help learning a new code-base?".

Then, can you share the code that you used to do the "quick test with the File Exchange contribution, GUI Layout Toolbox by David Sampson." (within m2uml_v11_hyperlinks_tooltips_publish). I wonder if you explicitely defined all the classes in the call to m2uml.run.

In any case, my question is not resticted to UML. Did you ever have to learn a new Matlab code base? General tips / tools?

Answer 1

[Yair Altman]

For inspecting a single object or class, try

1. the GUI-based uiinspect utility (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/17935-uiinspect) and/or:
2. console-based checkClass utility (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/26947-checkclass)