Imagix 4D: Reverse Engineer and Analyze Your Source Code

Imagix 4D provides software developers with a powerful tool to understand, document, and improve complex, third-party, or legacy source code.
It automates the analysis of control flow and dependencies, detecting problems in concurrency control and data sharing. This helps increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce risk. For C, C++, and Java developers, Imagix 4D enables you to quickly and accurately comprehend complex source code, automate the analysis of control structures and dependencies, identify and resolve issues in data usage and task interactions, and conduct thorough change impact analysis before making modifications. You can efficiently integrate and reuse open source code and confidently maintain and enhance legacy software. Spend more time engineering and less time reading through code with Imagix 4D.

Highlights:

Fast comprehension of unfamiliar C, C++ and Java Code
Extensive visualization options
Easy evaluation of the code quality through static analysis
Support of code reviews
- regarding the compliance of standards such as
MISRA-C++ 2008
MISRA-C 2012
AUTOSAR-C++ 2014
CWE 2.12
CWE 3.3
- by managing check lists,
- by conducting partly automized assessments,
- by creating reports
Support for a wide range of metrics, including HIS metrics
Delta Analysis: Visualizing and documenting structural differences between different code versions.
Automated documentation of projects

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Source Code Analysis

Imagix 4D helps developers understand and reverse engineer complex C, C++, and Java code, supporting tasks like learning unfamiliar code, impact analysis, integrating open source code, reusing code, and maintaining legacy software. Through precise static analysis, Imagix 4D offers comprehensive source code visualization and querying capabilities, enabling users to study software architecture, control structures, data usage, and dependencies. Its high-level views, like UML diagrams and Subsystem Architecture Diagrams, and detailed displays, such as sequence diagrams and flow charts, allow for thorough impact analysis and debugging. With support for various compilers and multitasking systems, Imagix 4D ensures accurate analysis aligned with your specific compiler's parsing.

Static Analysis & Metrics

Imagix 4D enhances software quality and security through static analysis, identifying potential problems early in development and testing. It supports thread safety, concurrency control, and checks for deadlocks and race conditions, ensuring reliability in real-time embedded systems. Quality checks and metrics, aligned with standards like CWE and MISRA-C, help improve security, reliability, and maintainability.
Imagix 4D tracks over 100 metrics, including McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity, Halstead Complexity, HIS-Metrics, Maintainability Index, and Chidamber and Kemerer object-oriented metrics, aiding in real-time flow verification, code reviews, third-party code assessment, and development progress tracking. Integrated with comprehensive source code visualization, Imagix 4D enables efficient, automated testing, allowing you to drill down into metrics and reports to understand and resolve issues, enhancing both quality assurance and program comprehension.

Delta Analysis

Imagix 4D's functionality extends beyond analyzing the latest code version, supporting the understanding and comparison of multiple variants throughout the software development process. Its Delta Analysis feature allows for structural comparisons between different code versions, aiding in project management by ensuring changes align with design intentions, confirming functionality, and identifying missing updates. Unique to Imagix 4D is its ability to analyze differences at the structural level, providing insights into control flow and overall architecture, which can be leveraged to automate code reviews and verification processes.

Code Review

Imagix 4D's Review tool streamlines software review processes by automating steps, integrating static analysis results, and creating documentation seamlessly. It distributes efforts among team members, tracks progress efficiently, and generates reusable intellectual property to simplify future reviews. This tool significantly reduces the effort required for comprehensive software reviews, enhancing overall software quality and compliance with industry standards.

Automates many of the steps in review process
Seamlessly integrates static analysis results with any necessary source analysis and visualization
Creates documentation and an audit trail automatically as part the process
Distributes effort among reviewers and developers, producing in a single, unified output
Facilitates review management, partitioning tasks and tracking progress as well as results

Automated Documentation

Automating documentation through reverse engineering with tools like Imagix 4D alleviates the tedious task of manual documentation in software development, maintenance, and quality assurance. By saving significant effort and ensuring accuracy, it allows teams to focus on value-added tasks, speeds up peer review efforts, reduces misunderstandings, and facilitates the onboarding process for new engineers. With 5% to 15% of development effort typically dedicated to documentation, automation offers a valuable solution for streamlining workflows and improving overall efficiency.

Integration of Imagix4D with Testwell CTC++

The integration of Imagix 4D with Testwell CTC++ helps you in reviewing the test coverage data. Several layouts for viewing the program flow are available. In addition, Imagix 4D shows Call Coverage / Call Pair Coverage (based on the Testwell CTC++ analysis).
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