Understand's metrics let you quickly learn key values about your code such as the cyclomatic complexity, the ratio of comment to code, line counts, and more.
When it comes to maintaining your code, the more information the better. Understand's Metrics give you this information in a way that's easy to understand.
Cyclomatic complexity is used to understand the maintainability of your code. Understand displays this information in easy to find browser windows.
Visualize metrics across your entire project with a metrics treemap. Each block in the metrics treemap represents a file, class, or function of your code. The blocks vary in size and color gradient to display the metrics you select. The sample below uses the number of lines in each file for the size and the cyclomatic complexity for the color.
Understand's metrics charts provide information for your overall project including the most complex and largest functions, classes, and files.
Use the Export Metrics dialog to select which metrics you want to export, the order of the metrics in the output, the output file, and more. Metrics can be exported to HTML or CSV files.
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