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Category: Code Comprehension

Announcing Local AI-Powered Code Descriptions in Understand!

Posted on May 2, 2025

Stop struggling to decipher complex code. We’re thrilled to announce the immediate availability of AI Overview, a brand-new, locally run feature in Understand that generates insightful descriptions directly within your codebase. Unlock immediate understanding – no more guesswork!

Safeguarding NASA Missions with Understand

Posted on August 14, 2024

SciTools recently met with NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) team to explore how they leverage Understand to ensure the safety and reliability of mission-critical software.

Feasting on My Own Dog Food

Posted on January 3, 2024

Understand complements my primary editor, VS Code, rather than replacing it. It’s an essential part of my workflow for personal projects, especially when it comes to easily visualizing the underlying types of variables and functions. It’s the best of both worlds!

Eric Poole: Using Understand to Reverse Engineer Legacy Code

Posted on October 24, 2023

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…

Clear Writing Equals a Clear Mind

Posted on September 19, 2023

“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…

Scoping a Refactoring Effort for My Boss

Posted on August 21, 2023

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…

Understand 6.3 Release

Posted on April 7, 2023

The Understand 6.3 release highlights the tools’ newest features and upgrades. Some of these improvements enhance existing tools, while others offer brand-new capabilities. Topics covered in this article include graph customization, continuous CodeCheck verification, a customizable Violation Browser, automated dependency rules, automatic architectures, AUTOSAR support, spell checking for comments/strings, SARIF imports feature, support for C#11, minor metric changes, and a new Jenkins plugin.

Making a Variable Tracker Graph

Posted on January 11, 2023

Use Understand’s Information Browser to find and graph all possible variables of your source code.

Understand as a Code Paradigm

Posted on December 20, 2022

Abstract: Understand looks and acts a lot like an IDE, but don’t be deceived. The real power of Understand comes from the way it represents your code and the solutions you can…

Adding ChatGPT and AI to Understand

Posted on December 8, 2022

Creating an easy plugin that uses OpenAI to explain your code

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