-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] 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.
