Understand 7.0 introduces a significantly improved CodeCheck with tighter integration, powerful reporting features, and the ability to manage multiple inspections. This allows for better analysis of code quality over time, including trend analysis and accurate baselining comparisons. New interactive reports and a dedicated web dashboard provide enhanced visualizations and insights into code health, streamlining the identification and tracking of violations.
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A Journey Through Time and Code
Johannes Lang, an Embedded Software Engineer at R-Stahl Germany, reflects on his two-decade journey with Understand, illustrating how the tool revolutionized his team’s approach to software development.
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…
Using Understand to Develop Advanced Weapons Systems
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) uses Understand by SciTools to measure and verify the development of advanced weapons systems against the Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) coding standard. They achieve this by utilizing Understand’s CodeCheck and other features.
Optimizing Understand API scripts
Identifying which CodeCheck scripts are taking a long time and three functions that might be slowing down your custom API scripts.
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.
The Perfect Catch
Understand’s CodeCheck features let your team catch bugs before they even make it to QA and help keep your code readable and maintainable.
Getting Git: Submodules
How we will be improving git submodule support in Understand.
Help your future self… write code not “magic”
Using unexplained numbers makes your code hard to understand, and difficult to adapt and extend. Static analysis tools like Understand can find them, but take care fixing them.
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.