visualization - Getting your head around other people's code -

I am sometimes unfortunate that I have to change old things, bad No documented and bad no design code

It often takes a lot of time to make a simple change because there is not too much structure for the existing code and I really have to read a lot of code before I feel where things will be .

I think it would be very helpful in such cases to be an instrument for observing a code, and then maybe drill down for further details. I suspect that such a device would be very accurate, provided it is trying to find the structure where there is little or no one.

I think this is not really a question, but it is a brain. I should do this in a question - What other people have to do to get their head about other people's codes, good and bad?

I strongly recommend. It is a free UML modeling tool, which:

• Very fast (fastest UML tool is built, check out),
• Rock solid C ++ Import support,
• Great SVG export support, which is important, because looking at the large graph in vector format, which is fast, Firefox is fast in scales (you can quickly "see the birds' eyes "View and View Class Details),
• Full characteristics, intensely developed (see, it is difficult to believe that such a rapid progress is possible).

Therefore: import your code into BOUML and view it there, or export it to SVG and see it in Firefox.