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.
Developer(s) | Novalys |
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Initial release | 1995 |
Stable release | Visual Expert 2021 [1]
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Written in | C# |
Operating system | Windows |
Available in | English, Japanese, Spanish, French |
Type | Code analysis tools |
License | Subscription, Perpetual, Concurrent [2] |
Website | https://www.visual-expert.com/ |
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]
Visual Expert is used in several contexts: