Understand

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For other uses, see Understand (disambiguation).

Understand is a commercial static code analysis software tool produced by SciTools. It is primarily used to reverse engineer, automatically document, and calculate code metrics for projects with large code-bases.

Understand works through an IDE designed to help maintain and understand old and new code using detailed cross references and a variety of graphical views.

Understand parses Ada 83, Ada 95, FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN 90, FORTRAN 95, Jovial, K&R C, ANSI C and C++, Delphi, and Java source code. Versions of Understand are provided for Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and SGI IRIX.^[1]

In Sept 2007 Lattix announced the latest version of their Matrix software would integrate with Understand.^[2]