Understanding Dependencies…Visually!

Show of hands, how many of us truly understand how your build automation tool builds its dependency tree? Now, lower your hand if you understand because you work on building automation tools. Thought so!

One frustrating responsibility of software engineers is understanding your project's dependencies: what transitive dependencies were brought in and by whom; why v1.3.1 is used when v1.2.10 was declared; what resulted when the transitive dependencies changed; how did multiple versions of the same artifact occur?

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