Many teams want to quickly generate Understand’s HTML reports and metrics as part of their regular build process. The new version of the command line tool ‘und’ provides a lot of options for doing exactly this. In this case, I am going to create an Understand project from the latest version of my source code, and generate the html reports and metrics for that version of the code. Since the new version of und has several different modes, I will show how this would be done in each mode.

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Understand has many different metrics, including a large number that focus on counting the number of statements and lines of code, including Lines of Code (LOC or SLOC), Lines with Comments (CLOC), empty lines (BLOC), Number of Statements, Number of Executable Statements, etc.

The short C/C++ example below shows how each line and statement contribute to these metrics in Understand. You can view the larger version here.

Metrics have always been very tightly coupled with software engineering. Love them or hate them, there is usually no avoiding them. In Understand 2.0 we’ve significantly increased our ability to provide useful metrics about your project. 

The metrics capabilities vary depending on what version of Understand you are using: Understand Engineer provides high level project metrics, Understand Pro lets you explore and export project and entity level metrics, and Understand Analyst lets you do all that, create custom graphs, and even compare how metrics are changing over time (trend analysis). 

All of this Metrics capability is accessed through the new Metrics menu.

Engineer	Pro	Analyst

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