Visual Expert helps in acquiring and transferring the knowledge of the application. It automates the impact analysis performed before each modification and checks code quality.

Visual Expert helps you with:

• Knowledge Management
  How to make the knowledge of your application available at all times, to every member of your team?
  
• Change Management
  How to avoid unwanted side effects when modifying your application? How to evaluate the impact of each change in the code?
• Source Code Documentation
  Generate a complete and customized technical documentation in minutes.
• Impact Analysis
  Avoid unexpected side effects when modifying the application.
• Exploring Your Application
  Visual Expert offers new ways to navigate in your application, no matter how complex it is.
• Improving the Source Code
  Improve your application and detect unused elements.
• Cost Savings
  Save Up to 30 % of your developing efforts thanks to Visual Expert

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You save the knowledge of your applications in a tool.
The knowledge remains available at all times, to every developer and to every project leader

Joining a project:
When someone joins a project, they need several months to master the application

Leaving a project:
When someone leaves a project, his knowledge is lost to the company.

Knowledge Transfer:
When an application is transferred to another group, it is a heavy procedure. It costs time and efforts.

With Visual Expert:
You save the knowledge of your applications in a tool.
The knowledge remains available at all times, to every developer and to every project leader.

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Unexpected side effects may possibly be generated by a modification.
They could appear at any time in the cycle, even after deployment, and are costly to resolve.

To avoid side effect issues, each modification should go through an Impact Analysis.
It is not always conducted as time often lacks.
When the Impact analysis is led, it is usually a time consuming process done manually and only partially reliable.

Visual Expert automates Impact Analysis:

• The process is easy and fast.
• The results are immediate, complete and reliable
  

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To write a technical documentation is always long and tedious!
With Visual Expert, generate a complete, customized and always up-to-date technical documentation in minutes.

Generate your source code documentation
Visual Expert generates a complete documentation in a few minutes.
It will be up-dated every time you need it.

Customized documentation:
You can select among about thirty templates:

• Some templates generate source code documentation (Word or HTML).
• Others templates generate code review.
• A wizard helps you to customize each result.

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When you modify the source code of the application, there is always a risk of regression and errors due to the modifications. By a click Visual Expert helps you to perform those impact analyses on any component of the application.

Why performing Impact analysis
Every modification has the possibility of unexpected side effects. Several items can be affected by a modification.
For example: When a variable is renamed, all the functions using this variable must be modified. How can we find all the functions which are using this variable?

Solutions offered by Visual Expert

• Visual Expert analyses your application in a few minutes.
• You select any item of your application.
• Visual Expert lists all the objects, which are calling this element.

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Visual Expert makes it easier to navigate, no matter how complex the application is.
Visual Expert helps you gain time in the development and maintenance of your application.

Visual Expert facilitates the integration of new developers.

Visual Expert allows you to:

• Discover the application structure and its components,
• Explore the inheritance tree and master the framework,
• See a preview of any application window in order to visualize its aspect and test it,
• Etc...

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Projects need to follow development rules in order to:

• Normalize the code
• Simplify its reading
• Anticipate maintenance

Visual Expert will help you during the 3 following phases:

• Before the development, Visual Expert helps to define the development rules (you can use the default ones)
• During the development, Visual Expert helps to apply the rules and to correct errors,
• After the development, Visual Expert can search in the whole application for unused components and those that do not comply with the rules.

Detecting the Dead Code
Visual Expert detects code in your application. Dead code includes functions, properties, parameters or variables that are never referenced.

Removing this dead code will improve the performance of your application and the source code will be easier to maintain.

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How much will you save?
Up to 30 % of your developing efforts are reduced thanks to Visual Expert

Mastering a new application
WITHOUT Visual Expert: It takes several months to master an application one hardly knows	WITH Visual Expert: A developer can be productive in a few days: the project can gain several months!
Modifying an application
WITHOUT Visual Expert: Modifications typically involve:   - 70% searching   - 30% actual modification	WITH Visual Expert: With the automation of searching phase, Visual Expert dramatically reduces modification costs
Unexpected side effects
WITHOUT Visual Expert: When the consequences of a change are not evaluated, problems may occur. Solving these often involves significant spending (debugging, deployment, loss of image, etc.).	WITH Visual Expert: Visual Expert automates the Impact Analysis. Issues are more readily apparent, reducing unexpected side effects.
Knowledge loss
WITHOUT Visual Expert: When someone leaves a project, they take away their accumulated knowledge. Therefore any problems encountered in the future will require new resources.	WITH Visual Expert: Solving problems will be easy, even if no one in the company knows the application anymore.

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