-Pratt & Whitney Software Developer
Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in developing, manufacturing, and servicing military and commercial aircraft engines. Maintaining the code for its legacy projects can prove a challenge and may require developers to work with many, often unfamiliar, code languages.
Perform an aerospace integration task where maintenance tasks are initiated and results recorded to verify functionality.
Understand™ was used for the following applications:
-generate metrics to help estimate the time to complete as well as the complexity of the task
-reverse engineer legacy code to effectively streamline the interface
-verify the final implementation against the generated control flows
The project was completed successfully and Understand™ saved significant time by aiding in the planning, design, and verification of the project. It also provided key metrics reports that helped to justify the process changes.
“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
“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] 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 a tremendous reverse engineering tool... with excellent metrics reporting and evolving standards verification capability.”
– Pratt & Whitney Software Developer
Chris Rhodes, Senior Software Engineer
Dell Inc.
