Understand 7.0’s new Interactive Reports transform raw code metrics into insightful and engaging visualizations, offering customization options to tailor the analysis to your specific needs and reveal the true story behind your code.
Category: Code Visualization
Custom Charts in Understand 7.0
Understand 7.0 makes it easier for users to create custom charts. With new tools and a redesigned Plugin Manager, developers can change existing charts or make new ones to fit their needs. This gives users more flexibility when analyzing and presenting their code.
Dependency Networks with Understand
A script to calculate and display design structure matrices based on file dependencies—plus lots of cool metrics based on the matrix.
Showing Line Coverage
Introducing custom line metrics in Understand – with examples showing coverage and violation information integrated into Control Flow and Data Flow Graphs.
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…
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.
Understand 6.3 Release
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
Use Understand’s Information Browser to find and graph all possible variables of your source code.
Understand as a Code Paradigm
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…
5 Tips for Faster Graphs
Five tips for speeding up graph generation in Understand.