-USAF Developer
The U.S. Air Force develops software projects with high complexity and must often maintain them for decades. The sheer size of projects and the use of old and less-common coding languages (Fortran, Ada, etc) makes analysis and maintenance a major undertaking for the developers involved.
To analyze, explore, and understand an operational flight program written in Jovial.
Understand was used for the following applications:
-Source code exploration
-Static Analysis
-Jovial code maintenance
The project was completed successfully and Understand™ helped the developer to rapidly produce an intuitive structure of the source code. It saved several hours of analysis time and provided an accurate understanding of the complex legacy project.
“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.
“Understand is a tremendous reverse engineering tool... with excellent metrics reporting and evolving standards verification capability.”
– Pratt & Whitney Software Developer
“[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
“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
Chris Rhodes, Senior Software Engineer
Dell Inc.
