Use our CodeCheck feature to eliminate bugs, comply with coding standards, and track progress. Checks can be automated to verify naming guidelines, metric requirements, published best practices, and more.
3,000+ rules bundled · 91% MISRA coverage · 90% AUTOSAR coverage
Understand provides a tool called CodeCheck to make sure your code conforms to published coding standards or your own custom standards. The same engine runs a MISRA rule, an internal naming convention and a Bug Hunter path analysis, so there is one place to configure what "clean" means for your project.
Every installation of Understand includes the full rule library, the reporting, and the command line runner.
Catch major bugs like null pointer dereference, divide by zero, memory leaks, and dangling pointers. Walk through your code step by step to understand how a bug was introduced.
We have an easy to use API, UI, and command line interface designed to help you create and enforce any custom coding standard. You can also request our engineers to create a custom check for you.
Dive deeper into your code with enhanced interactive reports that include a variety of customization options like charts, tables and images.
All of our checks can be set up to run from a command line. Add CodeCheck to your CI/CD pipeline to ensure every single commit is safe and bug free.
Complying with industry standards like MISRA and AUTOSAR doesn't have to be expensive. CodeCheck comes bundled with several industry standards to prove your compliance.
See how your code is trending over time. Set a baseline inspection and compare two different inspections, or add Git integration to compare your results for different commits.
We have hundreds of pre-made rules to allow immediate compliance with MISRA and AUTOSAR. Understand also comes with hundreds of "best practice" coding standards to ensure safety with every commit. Do you have unique coding standards not included in our default rules? No problem — Understand is compatible with custom standards, or ask us to write them for you.
All rules come standard with every installation of Understand.
Checks available for MISRA C 2004, MISRA C 2012, and MISRA C++ 2008.
We have 362 AUTOSAR rules available and Understand is ISO 26262 certified.
The compliance report is the artifact you hand to an auditor: every rule in the standard, whether it is enforced, and what was found. It is generated from the same run that CI executes, so the report and the build agree.
Whether you're working against industry standards or your own, CodeCheck makes sure your code is compliant.
Point CodeCheck at a configuration and it reports every violation in the project, grouped so you can see which files and architectures carry the weight rather than scrolling one long list.
If you need a tool to check C++ code, you've come to the right place. But it doesn't stop there — CodeCheck verifies code against a variety of popular coding languages including Python, Java, and more.
Write your own CodeCheck scripts using Understand's Python API. A check is an ordinary Python script with access to the parsed model of your project — the entities, the references between them, and the raw lexemes of every file — so a house rule that no grep can express becomes a few dozen lines.
With certifications in ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and EN 50128, CodeCheck is ready to verify your code against multiple industry standards from day one. AUTOSAR, MISRA, and C++ are all industry standards against which CodeCheck is able to verify your code. If you don't work with any of these standards, CodeCheck is also able to verify code against your own defined standard to ensure it is fully compliant.
Do you prefer complete control over your coding environment? Understand comes bundled with a robust API to unlock your project's full potential.
Our API allows the creation of custom graphs, metrics, and lexical analysis. Integrating with your current tools is now easier than ever.
Verify code compliance, ensure code complexity stays below a specified threshold, or email the team a code comparison graph, all from your existing pipeline.
Create and enforce any custom coding standard. We can teach you how to write a standard, or simply hire us to handle the entire process for you.
Understand by SciTools is certified for use as a support tool for all projects requiring ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and EN 50128 compliance. Safety is our top priority at SciTools; our software is heavily tested and vetted before each release, providing your team with a safe and secure development environment.
“I've found Understand to be useful for my embedded toolbox for the last five years or so. The tool is very versatile and can easily integrate into a build environment or DevOps systems without too much trouble.”
MISRA C 2004, MISRA C 2012 and MISRA C++ 2008 at 91% rule coverage, and AUTOSAR at 90% with 362 rules available. Hundreds of "best practice" coding standards ship alongside them, and all 3,000+ rules come standard with every installation of Understand.
Yes. There is an API, a UI, and a command line interface for creating and enforcing any custom coding standard. If you would rather not write them yourself, our engineers will create custom checks for you, or teach your team how to write them.
All of our checks can be set up to run from a command line, so CodeCheck drops into an existing CI/CD pipeline. From there you can verify compliance, fail a build when complexity passes a threshold, or email the team a comparison graph.
C and C++ first, but not only those — CodeCheck verifies code against a variety of popular coding languages including Python and Java. The full list is on the supported languages page.
Generate a compliance report. It is valid proof of MISRA compliance, it covers multiple configurations and custom rules, and because it is produced by the same run your pipeline executes, it stays current with the code.
Understand is certified for use as a support tool for all projects requiring ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and EN 50128 compliance.
Download a free trial and run the full rule library against a sample codebase, or point it at your own project and see what the first inspection turns up.
Every check included · Runs from the GUI or the command line · Windows, macOS and Linux
