Using Metrics to Understand Your Code

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.

Getting the Most Out of Metrics

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.

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Cyclomatic Complexity is Just the Beginning

View the Cyclomatic Complexity of Your Code

Cyclomatic complexity is used to understand the maintainability of your code. Understand displays this information in easy to find browser windows.

A Graphical Display of Your Code's Metrics

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.

Everything You Need to Know About Your Code

Understand's metrics charts provide information for your overall project including the most complex and largest functions, classes, and files.

Now with Hersteller Initiative Software (HIS) Metrics

Prove your software development process capability with HIS metrics. Find hotspots in your code quickly and easily with our metric treemaps and automated reports.

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Customer Case Studies

Learn how software developers across different industries use Understand to accelerate their workflows.

“[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 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 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.”

– Paul Hyland, Lockheed Martin

​“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

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