Executive Summary At the heart of the United States Air Force Material Command’s software maintenance operations, SciTools’ Understand software emerges as an essential tool, particularly when tasked with the upkeep of legacy…
Eric Poole: Using Understand to Reverse Engineer Legacy Code
TLDR: Eric Poole has used Understand for over 20 years to understand and reverse engineer legacy code for medical devices and other projects. Eric Poole is a retired software engineering consultant who…
Add Comments When the Code Can’t Explain Itself
TLDR The one certain time you should add comments to code is when the code can’t or doesn’t explain itself. Adding Comments I read a lot of code. And thus, I read…
Clear Writing Equals a Clear Mind
“A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will be able to express themselves clearly in comments.” – Kevlin Henney TLDR Clear writing equals thinking. Since you want your programmers…
Understand Desktops Around the World
We are asking for pictures of your desktop setups, and you are delivering! Scroll down to check out some of our favorites so far. But first… Did you know there are hundreds…
Create Beautiful Overview Graphs of Your Code
Five minutes with the free tool Gephi lets you turn Understand’s dependency data into a gorgeous overview of your project.
Scoping a Refactoring Effort for My Boss
TLDR You’ve been asked to consider replacing 2 open source modules–here is how to use Understand’s Architectures and Dependency analysis to let your boss know how much effort/risk this will entail. Details…
Using Architectures to Easily Track Dependencies on Open Source
Using Architectures to Easily Track Dependencies on Open Source
Finding Dependencies Between Libraries
Find everything a module depends on so you can easily extract it into a separate binary
Updated Metrics in Understand 6.4
Abstract: Learn what’s changed with Metrics in Understand 6.4. What happened to metric …!?!? If you don’t see your favorite metric right away, don’t panic. Understand 6.4 made some changes to metrics,…