Reports
Understand generates a wide variety of reports. The reports available in your project may vary based off of the project language, but the reports fall into these categories:- Cross-Reference reports show information similar to that in the Info Browser, except that all entities are shown together in alphabetic order.
- Structure reports show the structure of the analyzed program.
- Quality reports show areas where code might need to be examined.
- Metrics reports show basic metrics such as the number of lines of code and comments.
Custom Reports
The reports included with Understand have evolved over many years to accommodate common customer requests. However, we recognize that not all needs can be covered.
To help you develop custom reports there is a full Perl API interface to the Understand database as well as a full developed plugin mechanism. For example the custom report plugin below lists the most complex function in your project, based off of Cyclomatic complexity.
For details on the PERL API and using and developing plugins, visit the Plugins section. The Forum is also a good place to ask questions if you need help.
