diff --git a/app/lib/analyzer.dart b/app/lib/analyzer.dart
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+++ b/app/lib/analyzer.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2017, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+library pub_dartlang_org.analysis;
+
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:yaml/yaml.dart' as yaml;
+
+import 'model_properties.dart';
+import 'utils.dart';
+
+/// Collects the preparation, analysis and cleanup functions for analyzing a
+/// package.
+class Analyzer {
+  final File _sourceTarGz;
+  final Directory _workDir;
+  final bool _clearWorkDir;
+  Directory _packageDir;
+
+  Pubspec pubspec;
+  PubspecLock pubspecLock;
+
+  Analyzer._(this._sourceTarGz, this._workDir, this._clearWorkDir);
+
+  factory Analyzer(String source, {String workDir}) {
+    final Directory wd = workDir != null
+        ? new Directory(workDir)
+        : Directory.systemTemp.createTempSync();
+    return new Analyzer._(new File(source), wd, workDir == null);
+  }
+
+  /// Prepares the directories for the analysis and extracts the package.
+  Future setUp() async {
+    if (!_sourceTarGz.existsSync()) {
+      throw new Exception('Source file not found: ${_sourceTarGz.path}');
+    }
+    if (!_workDir.existsSync()) {
+      await _workDir.create(recursive: true);
+    }
+    _packageDir = await _workDir.createTemp('package-');
+    await extractTarball(_sourceTarGz.path, _packageDir.path);
+  }
+
+  Future analyzeAll() async {
+    await runPubGet();
+    await readPubspecs();
+    await runDartAnalyzer();
+    await runDartFormatter();
+  }
+
+  /// Runs pub get in the package directory to fetch the dependencies.
+  Future runPubGet() async {
+    // TODO: control the version of Dart SDK
+    // TODO: control the cache location
+    // TODO: add timeout handling
+    final ProcessResult pr =
+        await Process.run('pub', ['get'], workingDirectory: _packageDir.path);
+    if (pr.exitCode != 0) {
+      throw new Exception('pub get error: ${pr.stdout} ${pr.stderr}');
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Reads pubspec.yaml and pubspec.lock.
+  Future readPubspecs() async {
+    final String pubspecContent = await new File(
+            _packageDir.path + Platform.pathSeparator + 'pubspec.yaml')
+        .readAsString();
+    pubspec = new Pubspec.fromYaml(pubspecContent);
+    final String pubspecLockContent = await new File(
+            _packageDir.path + Platform.pathSeparator + 'pubspec.lock')
+        .readAsString();
+    pubspecLock = new PubspecLock.fromYaml(pubspecLockContent);
+  }
+
+  Future runDartAnalyzer() async {
+    // TODO: implement
+  }
+
+  Future runDartFormatter() async {
+    // TODO: implement
+  }
+
+  void createReport() {
+    // TODO: implement
+  }
+
+  /// Deletes all directories and files that were created during the analysis.
+  Future tearDown() async {
+    if (_clearWorkDir) {
+      await _workDir?.delete(recursive: true);
+    } else {
+      await _packageDir?.delete(recursive: true);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+class PubspecLock {
+  Map _content;
+  List<LockedDependency> _packages;
+
+  PubspecLock.fromYaml(String yamlContent) {
+    _content = yaml.loadYaml(yamlContent);
+  }
+
+  List<LockedDependency> get packages {
+    if (_packages == null) {
+      _packages = [];
+      final Map pkgs = _content['packages'];
+      if (pkgs != null) {
+        pkgs.forEach((String key, Map m) {
+          _packages.add(new LockedDependency.fromMap(key, m));
+        });
+      }
+      _packages.sort((a, b) => a.key.compareTo(b.key));
+    }
+    return _packages;
+  }
+}
+
+class LockedDependency {
+  final String key;
+  final String descriptionName;
+  final String descriptionUrl;
+  final String source;
+  final String version;
+
+  LockedDependency(
+      {this.key,
+      this.descriptionName,
+      this.descriptionUrl,
+      this.source,
+      this.version});
+
+  factory LockedDependency.fromMap(String key, Map map) {
+    final Map description = map['description'] ?? {};
+    return new LockedDependency(
+        key: key,
+        descriptionName: description['name'],
+        descriptionUrl: description['url'],
+        source: map['source'],
+        version: map['version']);
+  }
+
+  @override
+  bool operator ==(Object other) =>
+      identical(this, other) ||
+      other is LockedDependency &&
+          runtimeType == other.runtimeType &&
+          key == other.key &&
+          descriptionName == other.descriptionName &&
+          descriptionUrl == other.descriptionUrl &&
+          source == other.source &&
+          version == other.version;
+
+  @override
+  int get hashCode =>
+      key.hashCode ^
+      descriptionName.hashCode ^
+      descriptionUrl.hashCode ^
+      source.hashCode ^
+      version.hashCode;
+
+  @override
+  String toString() {
+    return 'LockedDependency{key: $key, descriptionName: $descriptionName, '
+        'descriptionUrl: $descriptionUrl, source: $source, version: $version}';
+  }
+}
diff --git a/app/lib/utils.dart b/app/lib/utils.dart
index b1f34335e5..ce4f57e211 100644
--- a/app/lib/utils.dart
+++ b/app/lib/utils.dart
@@ -42,6 +42,18 @@ Future<String> readTarballFile(String path, String name) async {
   return result.stdout;
 }
 
+Future extractTarball(String file, String destinationDir) async {
+  final args = ['-xzf', file, '-C', destinationDir];
+  final result = await Process.run('tar', args);
+  if (result.exitCode != 0) {
+    _logger.warning('The "tar $args" command failed:\n'
+        'with exit code: ${result.exitCode}\n'
+        'stdout: ${result.stdout}\n'
+        'stderr: ${result.stderr}');
+    throw new Exception('Failed to extract tarball.');
+  }
+}
+
 String canonicalizeVersion(String version) {
   // NOTE: This is a hack because [semver.Version.parse] does not remove
   // leading zeros for integer fields.
diff --git a/app/test/analyzer_assets/async-1.13.3.tar.gz b/app/test/analyzer_assets/async-1.13.3.tar.gz
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diff --git a/app/test/analyzer_test.dart b/app/test/analyzer_test.dart
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+// Copyright (c) 2017, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:test/test.dart';
+
+import 'package:pub_dartlang_org/analyzer.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  group('Analysis', () {
+    group('async-1.13.3', () {
+      Analyzer analyzer;
+
+      setUpAll(() async {
+        analyzer = new Analyzer('test/analyzer_assets/async-1.13.3.tar.gz');
+        await analyzer.setUp();
+        await analyzer.analyzeAll();
+      });
+
+      tearDownAll(() async {
+        await analyzer?.tearDown();
+      });
+
+      test('pubspec.yaml', () async {
+        expect(analyzer.pubspec, isNotNull);
+        expect(analyzer.pubspec.name, 'async');
+        expect(analyzer.pubspec.version, '1.13.3');
+      });
+
+      // I expect this test to fail eventually, because the resolved versions
+      // will differ.
+      // TODO: fix test to be robust on the resolved versions
+      test('pubspec.lock', () async {
+        expect(analyzer.pubspecLock, isNotNull);
+        expect(analyzer.pubspecLock.packages, hasLength(47));
+        expect(
+            analyzer.pubspecLock.packages[0],
+            new LockedDependency(
+              key: 'analyzer',
+              descriptionName: 'analyzer',
+              descriptionUrl: 'https://pub.dartlang.org',
+              source: 'hosted',
+              version: '0.30.0+2',
+            ));
+        expect(
+            analyzer.pubspecLock.packages[17],
+            new LockedDependency(
+              key: 'http_parser',
+              descriptionName: 'http_parser',
+              descriptionUrl: 'https://pub.dartlang.org',
+              source: 'hosted',
+              version: '3.1.1',
+            ));
+      });
+    });
+  });
+}