58% of developer time is spent understanding existing code structures
IEEE, Measuring Program Comprehension
The challenge
Development teams are under increased pressure to launch new capabilities, while also improving uptime of current services. With IT teams managing 100x more code today than a decade ago, delivery timelines are stretching from weeks to months. Most time is spent tunneling through thousands of lines of code to understand application structure. Documentation gaps burn up valuable hours in discovery calls to find component and dependency information.
Enter CAST
Scanning source code, CAST understands applications by reverse-engineering database structures, code components, and interdependencies. CAST generates interactive maps of every element and relationship, enabling architects and developers to spot each dependency. Team members can immediately see the impact a change will make and the effort required.
“Using CAST makes teams up to 10% more productive”
Ramesh Chandrasekaran COO Nordics, LTI Mindtree
15%
boost in development team speed
Assess changes
in hours, not weeks
Understand
structures and dependencies in minutes, not days
See it all
Zoom in on objects, functions, procedures, and data descriptors to see interactions across all layers, technologies, and applications.
Visualize end-to-end transactions from UI elements to database elements.
Collaborate in context
Share guidance and explanations using custom views and context-specific tags, notes, and documents.
Tag elements and post notes for teammates to see work-in-progress.
Plot pathways in a flash
Automatically map the path between any two code elements, visualizing data access and API call graphs and all dependencies.
Plot data access graphs, including every component involved in data display and processing.
Reverse engineer API call graphs, highlighting routes with hard-to-separate dependencies and the flows with low dependencies.
Search everything. Find anything.
Search all elements from one location.
Find elements that would be affected by changes using multiple filters.
Answer “What If’s”
See the effects of adding, deleting, and changing objects, as well as database fields before they’re made.
How it works
Visualizing all interdependencies and structural detail of complex software applications can dramatically raise productivity