CodeScene is the next generation code analysis tool. CodeScene doesn't just evaluate code, it looks at the entire git history to understand the evolution of your codebase, how your team works with the code, and understands what is affecting delivery output.
Get actionable insights and clear priorities for developers and technical managers to improve code quality and maintainability, and reduce technical debt.
Raising the maintainability bar
Study shows that CodeScene's Code Health Metric is 6 times more accurate than SonarQube
Code Health outperformed Sonar’s maintainability rating
Benchmarking of SonarQube and CodeScene on the public software maintainability dataset shows that CodeScene's Code Health Metric is 6x more accurate, performing at the level of human expert developers.
Software maintainability most important metric. Developers need to maintain the code.
Software maintenance accounts for more than 90% of a software product’s life cycle costs and developers spend 70% of their time on understanding existing code. Only 5% of developer's time is spent on writing new code.
Public benchmarking dataset to compare code quality metrics
For the benchmark study a public software maintainability dataset was used including 1.4 million lines of manually reviewed code to establish a ground truth for code quality. SonarQube and CodeScene were then compared for their code quality metrics on this dataset.
SonarQube alternatives
Why should you choose CodeScene over SonarQube?
Benefit from the industry-leading metrics
CodeScene’s Code Health is the only code-level metric with a proven business impact. That way, you avoid wasting time on issues that aren’t urgent or relevant.
Prioritized issues - You'll never get 5000 warnings
CodeScene’s findings are prioritized by impact and relevance, and catch design problems at a higher level than SonarQube. With CodeScene, you'll never get 5000 warnings.
Automated Code Reviews, only merge clean code
CodeScene provides automated code reviews of Pull Requests via a singleclick install, no matter how many different programming languages you use. No customization needed. Personalized Refactoring recommendations.
Better metrics with clear priorities Our automated code reviews and
Visualizes code so that it becomes accessible to the whole team
Our automated code reviews and quality gates make it all actionable
Proactive way of working
Up to 42% of development time is wasted due to technical debt. Change that with healthy code.
Start with a codebase of any size
Visualize millions lines of code in seconds. How do you know where the strong and potentially weak parts of your codebase are? Pinpoint code that is both expensive and hard to maintain.
Automatically identify unhealthy code
CodeScene reviews all code and presents it in an easy to understand overview. However, there's always a trade-off between improving existing code versus adding new features. Hence, priorities are vital.
Focus on high impact findings
Make findings actionable with CodeScene's Hotspots analysis. Get a prioritized list of complicated code that the organization has to work with often. This is your technical debt with high interest.
There is a better way
CodeScene was created as a reaction to static code analysis tools – 82% false positives isn’t good enough for software
A snapshot of the code is not enough
A static analysis like SonarQube focuses only on a snapshot of the code. Technical debt can never be prioritized from code alone.
CodeScene fills the gap in the market
CodeScene was created as a reaction to these shortcomings because our industry simply lacked a tool that could tackle technical debt and other code quality issues based on impact and relevance.
The cost of technical debt
The cost of technical debt is the additional time in development, increased delivery risks, and extra bugs. Not the cost of fixing the code itself.
Relevance and impact
Unlike SonarQube, CodeScene prioritizes all findings based on impact and relevance. We do this by including additional data sources (Git repositories) together with our industry-leading code level metrics which operate at a higher level than traditional code scanners.
Static analysis can't do the job
Since static analyses tools like SonarQube only consider the code, not the impact or the consequences, a static analysis by itself cannot do the job.
Powerful visualizations
In addition to all expected integrations, CodeScene also delivers powerful visualizations which let you reason about million lines of code at a glance.
Automated code reviews with personalized refactoring recommendations
IDE plugin for real-time code health feedback
Team-specific dashboards for standups and retrospectives
Prioritize technical debt with Hotspots
Prioritize technical debt with surgical precision
Stops degradations of your code quality. Get early warnings.
CodeScene acts as a quality gate. Only merge healthy code.
Testimonials
What are our amazing customers saying?
“CodeScene prioritizes the biggest bottlenecks in our software projects. It finds code improvements that give the biggest improvements in the development and maintenance of our codebases.“
Maarten M.
- Head of Global Quality Assurance, Philips
“No tools on the market could help us tackle technical debt in a data driven way - until we came across CodeScene.“
Christian Saleki
- CTO, SmartCraft
“CodeScene has helped us find ways to improve the productivity of our development teams and measure our success. Ultimately improving how quickly we can deliver value to the business.”
Patrick B
- Principal Engineer, SKY
“Often, files with already problematic code quality slowly increase in size because it’s easier to add 20 new lines of code to a 4000-line file than to start a refactoring of the file. With CodeScene we have found it easy to overview if we’re moving in the right direction or not.”
Martin Buungard
- Chapter Lead, DFDS, Denmark
“CodeScene offers insights to our software teams that they could never had before. I particularly love how the analyses aren’t there just because they’re impossible or interesting, but because they can guide great decision-making.”
Will Ellis
- VP Engineering, SoundsCloud Ltd
“CodeScene gave me a view of the codebase in a way that no other tool – or person – could. It helped me understand where our quality issues really came from, and to redirect my team to focus on remediating those areas.”
Shane Cheary
- Chief Technology Officer, Hangar A
“With CodeScene we’ll be able to see where we benefit the most from reducing technical debt. It helps us find code health issues early and fast during development.”
Stefanie Hill
- Tech Lead, Dental Wings
“We have automated our code quality reviews with CodeScene and have had impactful results from the beginning of usage.”
Heikki Polonen
- Principal Engineer, VideoVisit
“As the Chief Architect, I am able to get crucial visibility into teams and when technical debt increases and decreases.”
Shuva Brata Deb
- VP Engineering and Chief Architect, Safe Security
"You can’t focus on everything at once. How do you make the right decisions around where to invest your resources? CodeScene helps prioritize development and refactoring efforts to areas that will have the biggest impact and return on investment.”
Ben Holm
- Senior Director of Engineering, VidMob
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