Success with legacy code relies on only making changes to code you understand. Here are 9 systematic approaches that will help you UNDERSTAND your legacy code.
Category: Code Comprehension
Where to start?
Understand makes it easy to know where to start looking to track down a bug, Find where to place breakpoints, and identify which locations in the code need to be updated.
Git Comparison Projects
You can now create Understand Comparison Projects directly from git
As-Built Documentation
What does “as-built documentation” mean? For me, it means being able to find answers to my questions by quickly viewing references in the code. Take a look at how I use as-built documentation in a real-life scenario with Understand.
How Hard is it?
Understand is used to determine how much work it would take to create a database that reads files from a git repository.
De-Mystifying Dependencies
Dependencies seem simple on the surface, but there is a surprising amount of nuance involved in the details. We guide you through these areas as we explore new dependency options now available in Understand.
Short-term memory overload while debugging
The decisions you make while thinking about code are far too complicated to trust to memory. Ken shows how Understand helps you not rely on short term memory and walk code in an organized fashion that misses nothing.
2 Uber Fast Ways to Browse Your Code
In this short video, Ken shows you two similar but crucially different fast ways to browse code in Understand.
Info is just a Hover Away
If you hover over your code in Understand it will tell you all sorts of things about what you are hovering over.
Understanding Macro Heavy Code
Here is a quick solution to see your code with the MACROs replaced.