How to track data through several scripts and functions?

Hi, everyone!

I'm modifying an existing toolbox made by someone else and creating my own version of it. The toolbox is composed of several scripts, functions and data (.xlsx, .mat, .csv).

My new toolbox needs to replicate some of the features but not all.

For example if:

script1

calls

model=function1(data,model,in1);
out=function2(data,model,in2);

and in my new toolbox, the modified version of the script goes as

scriptMod1

modelMod=functionMod1(data,modelMod)
outMod=functionMod2(data,modelMod,in2)

Thus, several things are going on. I'm creating modified versions of the functions, modifying the model structure and editing the number of inputs of the functions.

The main problem I have is how to manage all this complexity. I've created a .prj and using the Dependency analyzer i was able to identify function calls quite easy, but i'm still not able to efficiently track the data inside the "Function calls" through-out the whole toolbox. For instance, I'd really need something like a probe to check on the function calls like this:

Right now I'm doing it by hand but it is really tiring and inefficient, cause some of the functions have more than 300 lines and I've like 5 scritps and 10 functions or so.

If anyone has any thoughts on this problem that'd be great!

Thanks!

[Mario Malic]

What do you mean by tracking data? Good thing to do in the Dependency Analyser is to move these function/scripts so they don't cross the lines which makes it hard to track, what goes where.

[Dario Slaifstein]

I want to see the inputs/outputs of the scripts and functions in a more detailed fashion than just a function call.

I want to compare my new toolbox to the existing one and need a better way to do it than by just entering each script o function and checking all by hand.

[Mario Malic]

If you have a script that calls all other functions, you can convert it to the function, adding all the output arguments to it that you want to check.

%test script
[out1, out2, out3] = myfun1(in1) % out1, ..., are the variables you want to check in the script
[out1new, out2new, out3new] = myfun2(in1)

You can use isequal or some other functions to check are they the same.

You might want to wait for another opinion, as there might be better ways to do this.