Get an Overview of Your Application

Use the Application scope and the Welcome page to build a first picture of an unknown application.

Before you start
Who this is for Architect, team lead, developer new to the application
Role required Viewer or higher
Prerequisites Application imported into CAST Imaging

Step 1: Open the application

From the application list, click the application you want to explore. The Welcome page opens.

Step 2: Read the application properties

On the Welcome page, look at the right panel for:

  • Application size (S, M, L, XL, XXL) based on lines of code
  • Total number of objects, relationships, transactions, and data call graphs
  • Technologies present and their lines of code

[TODO: Screenshot of the application properties panel]

Step 3: Open the Application scope

Click Application Architecture in the Welcome page tiles, or select Application in the Investigation panel.

The view opens at Level 3 by default. You see the main components of the application.

[TODO: Screenshot of Level 3 Application scope]

Step 4: Drill down to explore components

Double-click any node to go to the next level. At Level 5, you see individual classes and objects.

Use Shift + double-click on empty space to go back up one level.

Step 5: Change the perspective

Use the Investigation panel to change how objects are grouped:

  • CAST Taxonomy: groups by technology layer (front-end, middleware, back-end)
  • Modules: groups by functional module
  • Services: groups by exposed service
  • Architecture: groups by architectural layer

Next steps