Understand (software)
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Understand is a commercial static code analysis software tool produced by SciTools. It is mostly used to reverse engineer, automatically document, and calculate code metrics for projects with large code-bases.
Understand works through an integrated development environment (IDE) designed to help maintain and understand old and new code using detailed cross references and a variety of graphical views.
Understand parses source code of the programming languages Ada (83, 95), K&R C, ANSI C and C++, Delphi, Fortran (77, 90, 95), Java, JOVIAL, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, the style sheet language CSS, and the hardware description language VHDL. Versions of Understand are provided for the operating systems Windows, and Unix variants HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris.
