This section will introduce you to the Obsolence section in Kiuwan Insights.
Contents:
Obsolescence Page
With Kiuwan Insights, you can easily explore the versions of the components used by your application.
For every external component, Kiuwan Insights clearly states the version used and provides an Obsolescence Risk indicator.
To see this, go to Insights > Obsolescence. This page displays:
Before explaining the page contents, you should understand some basic concepts widely used throughout the Obsolescence page.
Any component has a life cycle. This means that at some date it was created and it evolved through different versions during its lifetime.
When Kiuwan Insight detects the use of a component, it displays its Used Version in your application, as well as the date when that version was released (Date).
Also, Kiuwan displays the Last Version (the latest released version of the component) and the date when the last version was released (Date).
With these values, Kiuwan Insights calculates two important periods:
High values for those periods are not desirable:
Value | Consequence |
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High Out of date value | You are probably missing bugfixes and new functionalities that are in newer versions. |
High Inactivity time value | The component is “dead” and you should find some more active components. |
Out of Date and Inactivity Time values are converted to a yearly-scale ranging from 0 to 10 years (values higher than 10y are taken as 10). Obsolescence Risk is calculated as a weighted average of Out of Date and Inactivity Time values (converted to years):
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Resulting values of Out of Date, Inactivity Time and Obsolescence Risk are considered as follows:
Value (years) | Label |
0 | |
( 0, 2y ] | |
( 2y, 5y ] | |
( 5y, 10y ] |
According to the above explanation of concepts, the Obsolescence tab displays the overall obsolescence information of your application.
The overall section displays:
Kiuwan Insights provides a full list of all those components being used by your application.
For every 3rd party component, you will have access to detailed component information such as:
By clicking on a component, you will have access to the following information: