If you want to make smarter, safer, and testable changes you need to know exactly where what you are changing will affect. Hyper-Xref technology, and the GUI and API/DevOps tools in Understand make you a safer, smarter engineer less likely to add bugs as you change code.
Category: Code Navigation
Precise Searching for Smarter Changes
Using precise cross-references from static analysis tools like Understand tells you exactly where to look both for direct implications of what you are about to change and also, importantly, for subsequent impacts or side-effects of those changes
Code Browsing using Graphical Views
Showing references in Understand graphical trees is a great way to hone in on the calls that built the tree as you debug or try to comprehend source code.
Set up Understand for Awesome Code Browsing
Use Understand’s Browse mode, Synching, the Previewer, Bookmarks, and Annotations to step thru a complicated function, thinking about it, saving locations, and leaving notes/ToDos as we explore.
My Tricks for Using Understand
Learn to quickly navigate in Understand like one of our Senior Engineers.
Lost in Translation – Finding Strings
This week I’m using Understand’s different search capabilities to find untranslated strings.