Initiating an analysis

To begin the analysis of a project, you will have logged into your Version-Control System (VCS) such as GitHub, which is being used in our examples. You connected to the Navigator using your server’s Public IP address and port 3001. Once connected to the Navigator, you selected the project that you wanted to analyze, cloned it and then selected the branch that you wished to analyze (See Authorizing Access to Your Source Code).

To begin the analysis of the branch, click on the Analyze button.

Smaller projects (< 100,000 Lines of Code) tend to be less complex in terms of number of files and methods. These may be analyzed within minutes. However, larger projects (> 1M LoC) may take much longer to analyze. That’s OK. You don’t have to sit and watch as it could take many hours for a large, complex project to be thoroughly analyzed.

Clicking the Analyze button gives you the option of requesting an email notification when the analysis completes. If you select the box requesting a notification, an email prompt is displayed. Enter the email to which iCR will address your notification.

To begin the analysis, click Yes. A new tab opens which takes you to the Monitor Analysis screen.

This display will be updated as the analysis progresses. The first step that the analysis undertakes is a check of the license. The license is used to authenticate this instance of iCR and manages the number of OBLoCs that are authorized for this instance. The Checking License Information step requires access to the Internet in order to reach the License Management software. This usually happens quickly and goes unnoticed. However, in some cases, if the Internet connection is a bit slower, you may occasionally see this progress message letting you know that the license checking process is still underway:

Once that step completes, the analysis is running.