New Product Demo: X-Ray View Into Your Software’s Functions

CodeYam's environment view provides a new way to navigate a software application's complexity, as demonstrated by looking at CodeYam itself.

Software becomes complex very quickly. This makes maintaining quality, communicating about changes, and even thinking about your application difficult.

This product demo walks through how we are attempting to tame this complexity. CodeYam provides an X-Ray view into your application, with the ability to navigate up and down the application’s hierarchy, showing all of the functions that make up the application and how they behave.

We use this functionality to explore a complex application: CodeYam itself. You can watch the demo here:

Our team’s goal is to accelerate software development by reducing the effort required to understand, test, and deliver valuable changes. To do this, we must provide a better way to navigate software’s complexity. This complexity, which tends to only grow faster as you add new features or team members, makes it harder to figure out how things work – or why they’re not working. This can slow down the software development life cycle, hurting speed and quality.

So how might we improve this? We think simulation is key. Already, simulations are used in other industries to allow professionals to interact with complex environments more quickly and safely: from flight simulators to CT simulations that help doctors plan cancer patients’ care.

We believe every software team should have a robust simulator to help them test, communicate, and think about the complex software they are building.

If what we are building at CodeYam sounds useful to you, please get in touch via our website. You can also follow progress by subscribing to this blog.