Our lead engineer uses Understand’s assign references to track data flow and hunt down a memory leak.
Category: Power User Tips
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…
Finding Dependencies Between Libraries
Find everything a module depends on so you can easily extract it into a separate binary
Visualize Code Coverage in Understand
Abstract: This article generates code coverage information for openssl and shows a few ways to use the information. I have to admit that the only time I’ve used code coverage is for…
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…
Making a Dependency Graph with Custom Dependencies
A sample python graph plugin to add custom dependencies to an architecture dependency graph.
Making a Custom Architecture Tree
How to create a custom architecture tree using the Python API.
Share (Or Don’t)
There are a lot of benefits to sharing Understand projects, but if you want to create your own, you can still benefit from the shared knowledge of your team.
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.
Measuring Your Code
Learn about the available metrics in Understand, the ways to explore them, and how they can help you solve problems.