OpenFastTrace Analysis Tool

A Python tool for analyzing and visualizing OpenFastTrace aspec reports, with a focus on identifying broken chains, dependencies, and version issues.

Learn more about OpenFastTrace at: itsallcode/openfasttrace

Features

• 🔍 Trace Chain Analysis: Visualize and analyze chains of dependent specification items
• 🚨 Failure Detection: Identify broken chains and the reasons for failures
• 🎨 Rich Terminal Output: Beautiful console visualizations with colors and Unicode symbols
• 🧠 Intelligent Analysis: Detects orphaned items, shallow coverage, and outdated versions

Installation

pip install oft-trace

Usage

Command Line Interface

The tool provides several commands:

Overview Analysis

oft-trace trace path/to/report.aspec

Analyzing a Specific Item

oft-trace trace path/to/report.aspec ITEM-123

Finding Broken Chains

oft-trace trace-failures path/to/report.aspec

Listing Items with Filtering

oft-trace list-items path/to/report.aspec --doctype req --coverage UNCOVERED

Common Options

• --output/-o: Path to output file (HTML or text)
• --limit/-l: Limit the number of items to analyze
• --doctype/-t: Filter by document type
• --coverage/-c: Filter by coverage status (COVERED, UNCOVERED, ORPHANED, SHALLOW, OUTDATED)
• --direction/-d: Direction of links to trace (both, incoming, outgoing)

Understanding the Reports

Coverage Types

✅ COVERED - Item is fully covered 🔍 ORPHANED - Item is not covered by any other items ⚠️ SHALLOW - Item has shallow coverage but misses deep coverage ♻️ OUTDATED - Item has version mismatch issues ❌ UNCOVERED - Item is completely uncovered

Example Terminal Output

FAILURE 1/5: req~payment-processing~2 [req]
Title: System must process payments securely

Failure reasons:
- ♻️ Version mismatch: arch-payment-module covers v1 but v2 is expected
- ❌ Missing coverage for types: impl

Trace chain visualization:
└── ❌ req~payment-processing~2 (v2) [req] (/specs/requirements.md:45)
    └── ♻️ VERSION MISMATCH: Covering v1 but v2 expected
        └── ⚠️ arch-payment-module~1 (v1) [arch] (/specs/architecture.md:67)

Advanced Usage

Programmatic Usage

You can also use the library programmatically in your Python code:

from oft_trace.analyzer import TraceAnalyzer
from oft_trace.parser import parse_aspec_file

# Parse the file
result = parse_aspec_file("path/to/report.aspec")
spec_items, id_map, covering_map, covered_by_map, broken_chains = result

# Create analyzer
analyzer = TraceAnalyzer(spec_items, id_map, covering_map, covered_by_map, broken_chains)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

This tool was generated with the assistance of AI technology.