CppDepend 2026: C/C++ & Java Analysis Tool Update

CppDepend 2026.1: Quality Insights, Code Quest, AI Companion, AI Prompt Builder, Coding Skills, Code Insight, Custom Boards + Multi-language UI & Windows/macOS/Linux Support.


Quality Insights: Focus on What Really Matters

  • Modern codebases contain thousands of issues—fixing everything at once is unrealistic. Quality Insights helps teams prioritize work where it has the highest impact.
  • Issues are organized into actionable categories such as Critical Priority Fix, High Priority Fix, Design Fix, Readability Fix, and Long-Term Quality.
  • Track progress with technical debt metrics, trends, and targets to prevent regressions and plan refactoring realistically.
Quality Insights

AI Companion: Talk to Your Codebase

  • Ask questions in plain language: “Which classes are the most complex?”, “Where is technical debt concentrated?”, “What are the main dependencies of this namespace?”
  • Answers are grounded in your analysis data: metrics, issues, dependencies, call relationships, maintainability indicators, trends, and hotspots.
  • Jump from answers to action with shortcuts into Code Insight, Code Quest, and Quality Insights.
AI Companion

Coding Skills: Discover Where to Level Up

  • Implementation: maintainability ratings & trends, complex methods/types detection, code smells, naming consistency, and technical-debt impact.
  • Design: identify overly coupled components, unbalanced types, responsibility distribution issues, and architectural smells.
  • Safety: track compliance with CERT C/C++ and MISRA C/MISRA C++, and highlight risky patterns with clear severity.
Coding Skills

Multi-language UI

  • CppDepend 2026.1 introduces a multi-language user interface, making adoption easier for global teams.
  • Available languages: English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese.
  • Perfect for distributed organizations enforcing shared quality gates and coding standards across regions.
Multi-language UI

Code Quest: Ask Questions to Your Codebase

  • Query types, methods, namespaces, dependencies, metrics, and rules to get precise answers in seconds.
  • Get metrics on the result set (size/complexity/maintainability), issue counts & severity distribution, and technical debt estimation.
  • Export results to Text, XML, CSV, or visual formats like Call Graph and Code Map.
Code Quest

AI Prompt Builder: Reliable AI Starts with the Right Context

  • Turn your intent into an AI-ready prompt: Fix, Understand, Document, or Test.
  • Choose Light or Rich context: source code, metrics, issues, dependencies, call relationships, maintainability indicators.
  • Context is extracted from the CppDepend static analysis model for predictable, trustworthy AI answers.
AI Prompt Builder

Code Insight: One Unified View per Code Element

  • For any assembly/namespace/type/method, get structure, metrics, and analysis results in a single coherent view.
  • Summary answers “Is this code healthy?” with size metrics, maintainability, technical debt, issue counts, and coverage.
  • Go deeper with tabs like Insight, Source, Code Map, and Call Graph to understand impact and refactor safely.
Code Insight

Custom Boards: Tailored Dashboards & Visible Quality Gates

  • Compose dashboards with widgets: Rule, Query, Chart, Metric, Summary, Call Graph, and Gate.
  • Adapt boards for developers, tech leads, and managers—from refactoring hotspots to executive overview.
  • Make objectives measurable with Quality Gates (thresholds on metrics/rules/technical debt) and detect regressions early.
Custom Boards

Multi-platform: Windows, macOS, Linux

  • CppDepend 2026.1 is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux—so teams can standardize quality practices across environments.
  • Run the same analysis workflow everywhere: architecture, technical debt, trends, quality gates, and AI-assisted investigation.
  • Ideal for mixed developer fleets and CI/CD pipelines running on different OS targets.
Multi-platform

With CppDepend, software quality can be measured using Code Metrics, visualized using Graphs and Treemaps, and enforced using standard and custom Rules — now enhanced with Quality Insights, Code Quest and AI-assisted workflows.

CppDepend offers a wide range of features. It is often described as a Swiss Army Knife for C and C++ developers.

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