Understand is a customizable

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(IDE) that enables

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through an array of visuals, documentation, and metric tools. It was built to help software developers comprehend, maintain, and document their

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. It enables code comprehension by providing flow charts of relationships and building a dictionary of variables and procedures from a provided source code.

Features

In addition to functioning as an integrated development environment, Understand provides tools for metrics and reports, standards testing, documentation, searching, graphing, and code knowledge. It is capable of analyzing projects with millions of lines of code and works with code bases written in multiple languages. Developed originally for

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, it now supports development in several common programming languages.

Applications

Understand has been used globally for government, commercial, and academic use. It is used in many different industries to both analyze and develop software. Specific uses include a variety of applications: code validation for embedded systems, software litigation consulting, reverse engineering and documentation, and source code change analysis.

References

External links

* {{Official website, scitools.com Code navigation tools Documentation generators Software metrics Static program analysis tools Proprietary commercial software for Linux