“…The preferred point of access is at the end of the chain where an Application Programmers Interface (API) provides easy access to information about the names, classes, namespaces, functions, function calls or statements in the C ++ application under study. Our tool has been used to build class diagrams, object relation diagrams (ORDs), a taxonomy of classes for maintenance, to facilitate software visualization and to compute metrics to evaluate object-oriented applications [9,25,20,28,32].…”