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Your COBOL systems support the most critical objectives of your business. Phase Change Software LLC's COBOL Colleague captures institutional knowledge automatically by slicing your code to reveal complete business functions—every derivation, condition, and dependency that influences each output field. Instead of spending months documenting systems, our AI extracts […]
“I still think that one of the finest tests of programming ability is to hand the programmer about 30 pages of code and see how quickly he can read through and understand it.” – Bill Gates Various research suggests that reading, editing, and navigating code encompasses significant cognitive effort beyond simply writing new code. And […]
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Code comments are often difficult to understand, incomplete, out of date and untrustworthy to many developers, resulting in significant additional work and unintended business risks. Incorrect documentation results in time and money lost. Transitioning away from relying on developers to add and update comments in code and related documentation requires new methods and tools. Steve […]
Most dev tools are not yet capable of identifying the specific lines of code that need to be changed, and unearthing that information is hard cognitive work. While some tools can help improve productivity by suggesting what code to write, software developers still have to use their brains to add new features, fix bugs, implement […]
Would you believe that the average software developer spends roughly 75% of their time just searching through and understanding code to make necessary changes? When software engineers have to spend so much of their time just finding and understanding legacy code, before any real work gets done, they have less time to create new solutions […]
