Short Description
One of the major challenges for consolidated components is to identify components for consolidation. A complementary approach would be to enhance the consolidation plugin to accept an input list of codebase directories (and component names?) that are the desired consolidation points.
How This Feature will help you/your organization
During codebase analysis (beyond package-oriented analysis), an analyst/auditor will often have a pretty good top-down idea of which directories are good candidates for consolidation/summarisation based on initial review of the codebase. This enhancement would allow you to designate which directories are a good candidate for consolidation and would make it much easier for an auditor/analysis to validate or reject the candidate components with the automated collection of the file level data.
Possible Solution/Implementation Details
This might be a list of dozens or more directories so it would make sense to pass the name of a simple input file to the plugin rather entering the directory names in the command line.
Example/Links if Any
This issue is related to #1686.
Short Description
One of the major challenges for consolidated components is to identify components for consolidation. A complementary approach would be to enhance the consolidation plugin to accept an input list of codebase directories (and component names?) that are the desired consolidation points.
How This Feature will help you/your organization
During codebase analysis (beyond package-oriented analysis), an analyst/auditor will often have a pretty good top-down idea of which directories are good candidates for consolidation/summarisation based on initial review of the codebase. This enhancement would allow you to designate which directories are a good candidate for consolidation and would make it much easier for an auditor/analysis to validate or reject the candidate components with the automated collection of the file level data.
Possible Solution/Implementation Details
This might be a list of dozens or more directories so it would make sense to pass the name of a simple input file to the plugin rather entering the directory names in the command line.
Example/Links if Any
This issue is related to #1686.