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Visual Expert is a static code analysis tool, extracting design and technical information from software source code by reverse-engineering, used by programmers for software maintenance, modernization or optimization.

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It is designed to parse several programming languages at the same time (PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, PowerBuilder...) and analyze cross-language dependencies, in addition to each language's source code.

Visual Expert checks source code against hundreds of code inspection rules for vulnerability assessment, bug fix, and maintenance issues.[3]

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Features

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Usage

Visual Expert is used in several contexts:

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Limitations

History

  • 1995- 1998 - Prog and Doc - Initial version distributed on the French market [5]
  • 2001 - Visual Expert 4.5
  • 2003 - Visual Expert 5[6]
  • 2007 - Visual Expert 5.7[7]
  • 2010 - Visual Expert 6.0[8]
  • 2015 - Visual Expert 2015 - Server component added to schedule code analyses[9][10]
  • 2016 - Visual Expert 2016 - Oracle PL/SQL code parser, code inventory (lines of code, number of objects…)[11]
  • 2017 - Visual Expert 2017 - SQL Server T-SQL code parser, Code comparison, CRUD matrix[12]
  • 2018 - Visual Expert 2018 - DB Code Performance Analysis, integration with TFS
  • 2019 - Visual Expert 2019 - Generation of E/R diagrams from the code
  • 2020 - Visual Expert 2020 - Object dependency matrix, naming consistency verification, integration with GIT and SVN
  • 2021 - Visual Expert 2021 - Continuous Code Inspection,[13] integration with Jenkins
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