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Features Contact Pricing Blog Support Login Free Trial Understand code. Discover how Legacy Code fits together Visualize with customizable Graphs Comply with AUTOSAR, MISRA, and more Automate solutions with full API access Gain valuable insight with Metrics Onboard new team members quickly Start now Get a demo Try our new Visual Studio Code extension Free with every installation of Understand The Understand extension for VS Code makes our most used features even more accessible. Find the underlying types for variables, view control flow graphs, utilize thousands of code compliance checks, and perform a full analysis of your project in a fraction of the time compared to similiar extensions. Go To Download Trusted by over 20,000 developers ​Understand accelerates my understanding of large source code repositories.” Chris Rhodes , Senior Software Engineer Dell Inc. LEGACY CODE Understand your Code Have you recently inherited confusing legacy code? Understand is here to help. Analyze Dependencies Blindly changing legacy code can lead to disaster. Know what your changes will affect before you even start writing. Navigate Cross-References Navigating legacy code doesn’t need to feel like an endless maze. Quickly navigate references to create a mental map of the code base. View Call-Trees Expand a function’s call tree to see what any changes might affect. You can also view Butterfly, Control Flow, and many other useful graphs. Learn More See Pricing Static code Analysis Verify your Code Does your project require strict coding standards? Understand has the capability to check your code against industry, common, or custom standards. Introducing CodeCheck, our code compliance solution CodeCheck can be integrated into your CI/CD pipeline to run with every code check-in and notify team members when a compliance check has failed. Checks against industry standards like Autosar and MISRA C/C++ Our Bug Hunter checks look for common bugs like memory leaks and dangling pointers Learn More Let our trained software engineers write your custom standards for you! Learn How 3000 + Customizable Rules All rules come standard with every installation of Understand . 99 % MISRA Rules Coverage Checks available for MISRA C 2004, MISRA C 2012, and MISRA C++ 2008 90 % AUTOSAR Rules Coverage We have 362 AUTOSAR rules available and Understand is ISO 26262 certified. Learn More See Pricing GRAPHS Visualize your Code Quickly see how your source code is structured, organized, and related. See Control Flow, Call Trees, Dependency, Butterfly, UML Class, and many other graph types. All our graphs are interactive and customizable, expand or contract your graph to see exactly what you need. Learn More See Pricing METRICS Quantify your Code Do you need help locating the "problem" areas in your code? Understand comes bundled with dozens of metrics that help with exactly this scenario. Measure Twice, Code Once Understand your code’s cyclomatic complexity by using various browser and display options Receive detailed metrics about your code at the file, class, and entity levels Export a full list of your metrics to an HTML or CSV file Learn More See Pricing CUSTOM SCRIPTING Automate your Code Do you prefer complete control over your coding environment? Understand comes bundled with a robust API to unlock your project’s full potential. An API for Toolsmiths Our API allows the creation of custom graphs, metrics, and lexical analysis. Integrating with your current tools is now easier than ever! Learn More Continuous Integration Verify code compliance, ensure code complexity stays below a specified threshold, or email the team a code comparison graph all from your existing pipeline. Learn More Custom Scripting Create and enforce any custom coding standard. We can teach you how to write a standard or simply hire us to handle the entire process for you! Learn More 1 def fileCleanText ( file ): 2 returnString = "" ; 3 4 # Open the file lexer with macros expanded and 5 # inactive code removed 6 for lexeme in file.lexer( False , 8 , False , True ): 7 if (lexeme.token() != "Comment" ): 8 # Go through lexemes in the file and append 9 # the text of non-comments to returnText 10 returnString += lexeme.text(); 11 return returnString; 12 13 # Search for the first file named ‘test’ and print 14 # the file name and the cleaned text 15 file = db.lookup( ".test." , "file" )[ 0 ]; 16 print (file.longname()); 17 print (fileCleanText(file)); Learn More See Pricing Hyper-Xref Explore your Code Navigating complex code relationships has never been easier. Hyper-Xref technology and the tools in Understand make you a safer, smarter engineer less likely to add bugs as you change code. Understand contains a built in IDE that facilitates code browsing. Click on any entity (function, class, variable, etc) to see detailed information and double click to be taken directly to where the entity is defined. Every named part of your code is referenced and can be bi-directionaly navigated. Keep the Information Browser pinned while you work to quickly see everything Understand knows about a selected entity. The Information Browser updates depending on what you have selected. For functions, see the return type, paramters, and a list of references that take you to that instance immediately when clicked. For files, see the member variables and functions, a list of includes, and relevant metrics. Graphs can also be accessed from the Information Browser or by right clicking any named entity in your code. Quickly see everything that calls or is called by a specific funtion with a Butterfly Graph. Learn more See Pricing Code comparison Compare your Code Quickly see the difference between two project states. View changes by files, folders, entities or architectures. View your changes as a text comparison or in a tree map. Just specify the git revision you would like to compare against or compare two databases. Free Trial See Pricing Save Time with Understand What would have previously taken me several days (or weeks) can now be accomplished in a matter of hours… It’s the Swiss army knife of static analysis tools.” Randall Landaiche Intuity ​[Understand] is good for discovering the structure of the code dependencies and call-paths... it would have taken me hours to generate the same thing on my own.” Paul Hyland Lockheed Martin ​Understand accelerates my understanding of large source code repositories.” ‍ Chris Rhodes Dell Customer Case Studies Learn how software developers across different industries use Understand to accelerate their workflows. Read the Case Study [Understand] has great graphing tools, metrics, reporting, data dictionary… and is customizable and extensible. It also helps you to find compile time and parsing errors.” – USAF Software Developer Read the Case Study Understand can take existing code and basically generate any design information or view you would want to see, in addition to performing several useful types of analyses.” – Jason Bold, Sr. Software Eng. Read the Case Study ​Understand is a tremendous reverse engineering tool... with excellent metrics reporting and evolving standards verification capability.” ‍ – Pratt & Whitney Software Developer Read the Case Study ​Understand™ is good for discovering the structure of the code dependencies and call-paths... it would have taken me hours to generate the same thing on my own, and I would not have had near as much confidence in my own work (assurance that I understood the code correctly).” ‍ – Paul Hyland, Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin Understand is certified in ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and EN 50128 Understand by Scitools is certified for use as a support tool for all projects requiring ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and EN 50128 compliance. Safety is our top priority at Scitools, our software is heavily tested and vetted before each release providing your team with a safe and secure development environment. Learn More Compatible with Most Languages See how Understand is...