Strongly connected components (SCCs)
Alternative name for Cyclic dependencies.
A strongly connected component is a maximal group of packages in which every package can reach every other via directed dependency paths. In practical terms, an SCC with more than one member is a cycle: the packages are mutually entangled. Graph theory uses the term SCC; architects usually say "dependency cycle". AtlasArc detects and visualises these clusters as part of the cyclic dependencies metric.