Five minutes with the free tool Gephi lets you turn Understand’s dependency data into a gorgeous overview of your project.
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…
Using Architectures to Easily Track Dependencies on Open Source
Using Architectures to Easily Track Dependencies on Open Source
Finding Dependencies Between Libraries
Find everything a module depends on so you can easily extract it into a separate binary
Updated Metrics in Understand 6.4
Abstract: Learn what’s changed with Metrics in Understand 6.4. What happened to metric …!?!? If you don’t see your favorite metric right away, don’t panic. Understand 6.4 made some changes to metrics,…
Metric Plugins
Abstract: Understand 6.4 let’s you create your own metrics. Understand comes with a lot of built-in metrics, like the number of code lines or the McCabe cyclomatic complexity of a function. Not…
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 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.
Friends Don’t Let Friends Have C++ Friends
An interactive report to show all the references that depend on C++ friend statements.