-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] 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
“AI, combined with the custom SciTools Python API, makes it possible to create plugins for the Understand environment that are an order of magnitude more powerful than previously would have been practical.”
– David Durlach, TechnoFrolics
“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 plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the safety and success of NASA’s space missions. Understand enables them to navigate the complexities of diverse codebases, proactively mitigate risks, and ensure adherence to software quality standards.
“While other code checkers existed, each with its strengths and weaknesses, Understand’s additional features made it a valuable all-in-one tool.”
– Johannes Lang, R-Stahl
Chris Rhodes, Senior Software Engineer
Dell Inc.
