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.

VISUAL EXPERT
Developer(s)Novalys
Initial release1995
Stable release
Visual Expert 2021 [1]
Written inC#
Operating systemWindows
Available inEnglish, Japanese, Spanish, French
TypeCode analysis tools
LicenseSubscription, Perpetual, Concurrent [2]
Websitehttps://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]

Features

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Usage

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Visual Expert is used in several contexts:

Limitations

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History

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  • 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

References

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  1. ^ "Visual Expert 2021 Release News".
  2. ^ "Visual Expert Pricing". Visual Expert.
  3. ^ "Code Inspection for PB, Oracle & SQL Server". www.visual-expert.com. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  4. ^ "Visual Expert Jenkins Plugin". Jenkins.io. 2021-09-21.
  5. ^ "Prog & Doc (french page from Web Archive)". Eurelys. 7 July 1997. Archived from the original on 1997-07-07.
  6. ^ "Mise à jour de Visual Expert - version 5.0". Programmez!. 2004-06-16.
  7. ^ Pollach, Chris (April 23, 2007). "Visual expert 5.7 released". Archived from the original on 2014-07-26.
  8. ^ "Novalys introduces Visual Expert 6.0". DBTA. 23 April 2009.
  9. ^ "Introduction to Visual Expert 2015" (PDF). Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference. 2015-05-10.
  10. ^ "Visual Expert Team System". Visual Expert. 2015-05-15.
  11. ^ "Visual Expert Release History". Visual Expert. 2021-09-21.
  12. ^ "Visual Expert for SQL Server". DBMC tools. 2017-10-01.
  13. ^ Dufourmantelle, Christophe (2020-11-17). "Improve the Security and Quality of Your Code". Youtube.
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