SciTools Understand

It provides a suite of tools for exploring and analyzing source code on macOS. Users can navigate a codebase quickly through cross‑references and call trees, group files into logical architectures, and examine dependencies among modules, classes, functions, or custom structures. Visualizations such as dependency, butterfly, data‑flow and call‑by graphs can be customized, exported, or extended with plugins.

The product also supports compliance validation, offering built‑in checks for standards like AUTOSAR and MISRA and allowing custom checks to be added. A large collection of industry‑standard metrics is available, with the option to create additional metrics via a Python or Perl API, and results can be displayed visually or exported for reporting.

Plugins and APIs enable further integration with existing workflows, while the built‑in editor supplies search, navigation and annotation features that keep notes synchronized with the source. The tool is positioned for developers handling large, complex codebases who need insight, measurement and compliance assistance.