Impact analysis and visual preview

What it does

• In Quality › Impact Analysis you pick the changing items (screen, component, entity field, table, function, symbol, process, requirement) or take them from an open task.
• The result comes with a risk level: affected items, direct impact, tests, confidence; tabs Data and scenario, Impact list, Interaction graph and Live preview.
• Live preview shows the screen (a screenshot for native apps, a local address for the web) with its regions; region → content → data → function → code line is drawn with read/write and risk colors. Send to AI builds a ready prompt with that context; you edit and approve it.
• The project visual map (PVM) holds the links between modules, surfaces, regions and code lines; the analysis uses it.

Step by step

1. Open Quality › Impact Analysis in the project menu.
2. Add items under Changing items (e.g. ENT-order.status) or use Take from task; press Analyze.
3. Read the risk summary and direct impacts; ask “what if I add this field to this screen” with the change scenario.
4. In Live preview, choose the screen and click a region or pick it from the list; follow the chain.
5. If needed, review the prompt with Send to AI and send it to the director session.

Related hx commands

# writes an impact report (IMP-###)
hx impact ENT-order.status --task TASK-008 --write

# data fields the screen reads and writes
hx impact data SCR-order-detail

# compares the prediction with the real git diff
hx impact verify IMP-001 --branch feature/returns

# which surface and region shows the item
hx pvm where ENT-order.status

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