Understand Sessions lets you configure your workspace as you like it for a particular task, name and save it, and then switch between different workspace setups instantly. This is useful for common use cases and for switching between tasks.
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.
Tracking Uses of Deprecated Code Using Architectures
The first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging. Ken shows how to use architectures to identify the areas of your code using problematic function
Pro Tip: Start with Directory Structure and add some Human to it.
Adding a bit of human knowledge to the automatically built Directory Structure architecture can improve its visual appeal and utility quite a bit.
Assessing Possible Changes in Source Code (a.k.a. My boss asked me to change this code)
Estimating the impact of changing a function in the open-source covid source code.
A visual tour of cyclomatic complexity
A visual tour of how maintenance risk increases with cyclomatic complexity
Functional Decomposition Architectures FTW
A functional decomposition architecture is easy to make and can help you organize key information about your project.
Analyzing the Imperial College COVID simulation model source code
I used Understand’s CodeCheck feature to examine an influential COVID infection simulation program from Imperial College in the UK as it existed in March 2020 when it was being used to advise world leaders.
Making big graphs manageable with “relationship” graphs
Use”Relationship” graphs, which draw sub-graphs between entities, to break big graphs into little graphs and work your way thru them – turning a big thorny graph into a few easy-to-follow graphs.