Code Knowledge 

Understand provides you with pertinent information regarding your code. Quickly see all information on functions, classes, variables, etc., how they are used, called, modified, and interacted with. Easily see call trees, metrics, references and any other information you would want to know about your code.


 

 Metrics & Reports 

Understand is very efficient at collecting metrics about the code and providing different ways for you to view it. There is a substantial collection of standard metrics quickly available as well as options for writing your own custom metrics when we don't cover exactly what you need.
 

 Graphing 


Understand offers graphs that allow you to see how your code connects (dependencies), how it flows (control flow graphs), what functions call other functions (call graphs), and many more. There are many customization options to easily allow you to display only what you are interested in seeing so the graph is best suited to what you need.







 

 Standards Testing 

Understand provides a way to check your code using published coding standards, or your own custom standards. These checks can be used to verify naming guidelines, metric requirements, published best practices, or any other rules or conventions that are important for your team.


 

 Dependency Analysis 

See all the dependencies in your code and how they connect. See these dependencies using Understand's interactive graph or using the textual Dependency Browser. Both allow you to see all dependencies quickly and easily at a high level or dig in and get the details.
 

 Editor 

Understand's powerful editor is a full modern programming GUI that incorporates all the modern features you would expect. It is designed from the ground-up for multi-monitor use and it includes tabs, tab groups, docking, syntax colorization, auto-completion, and syntax-based collapsing and folding just to name a few.




 

 Search 

Multiple options are available for searching in Understand. For instant results, use our "Instant Search" feature which provides results before you are even done typing. Understand also provides search options for more customized and complicated searches, such as Regular Expression and Wildcard searches.
 

 Languages 

Understand supports more than a dozen languages and can handle code bases that are written in multiple languages. This allows you to see calls and dependencies between languages so you can get information about the complete system.
 

What are the system requirements for Understand?
Understand takes about 200-300MB of installation space, depending on which OS it is installed on and will run on Windows (Windows 7 and later), Linux 64bit (CentOS & RHEL 7.4, Ubuntu 16.04, and later) and Mac OSX (Sierra 10.12 and later). For larger code bases the more RAM the better. We recommend 1GB / Million lines of code, it will run on less, but it is much slower.