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He also wrote Your Code as a Crime Scene and authored the open source tool, Code Maat. I've found both extremely useful in my current job where I took over a code base with immense technical debt. AFIK, Code Scene is a commercial version of Code Maat.

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

It's not as neat as that unfortunately. You use this to extract different data from the version control history: https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

Then visualize it however. I have some d3 scripts that came with the book that I've modified and you can track down somewhere on github I'm pretty sure. I mostly use those for demoing it to devs unfamiliar with the techniques though, since it looks cool and is immediately obvious what it's for.

For serious use I dump it into sqlite and use a mix of different scripts and techniques to figure it out. It's been kind of a language playground for me over the years so is in a lot of different languages and is "learning code" in most of them. Cleaning them up and sharing is one of those "maybe some day" things though.

See the work by Adam Tornhill

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWhBmJJZoNM

https://pragprog.com/book/atcrime/your-code-as-a-crime-scene

https://pragprog.com/book/atevol/software-design-x-rays

never tried it myself, but you can take a look at the accompanying code "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat