As your organization and your software grow, technical debt is also growing in the background. Unmanaged, it becomes a burden for your teams, your budget and your future.
It doesn't have to be this way.
The challenge
Two key problems
Lack of visibility makes it difficult to address
Stakeholders are more interested in new features and they often lack visibility into the root causes behind expanding development times and budgets.
Addressing unhealthy code can be overwhelming
Addressing unhealthy code can be overwhelming. Codebases, whether they are "legacy" or not, can be huge. Developer time is limited and expensive.
How we solve the tech debt challenge
Identify and measure technical debt
Visualize technical debt - Analytics to action
Even for very technical people, like architects and senior developers, large parts of a system are like a black box. This is especially true of unhealthy code which is harder and more time-consuming to read and understand.
Identify problematic files - find the needle in the haystack
In minutes, CodeScene can analyze massive projects with millions of lines of code. It then identifies the most problematic files in terms of both code health and developer activity.
CodeScene recognizes files that are slowing down delivery
These hotspots are actively costing development time and slowing down new feature implementation. CodeScene can identify individual functions and methods that are consuming your team's bandwidth.
We need to look beyond the code itself
Technical debt is not just a code problem
Visualize team's code familiarity
New developers working on unfamiliar code will take longer to complete tasks and are more prone to introducing new bugs. Social aspects can have just as much impact as low code health.
Anticipate problems related to key personnel dependencies
CodeScene's knowledge metrics allow you to anticipate problems related to key personnel dependencies and reduce knowledge risk. The offboarding simulator can help prepare for when developers move on to other companies.
Team structure and code architecture can also create inefficiencies
As companies grow, so do their teams. The architecture that worked with three teams may not be a good fit now that there are eight teams. Mismatch between code and teams can become a friction point. CodeScene's team analytics are a way to make better decisions about organizing your developers and your code.
Reduce and manage technical debt
With CodeScene, fixing technical debt starts at the precise locations where remediation efforts will bring the most benefit. Reducing your technical debt is no longer a lost cause. With CodeScene’s guidance, it can be a series of quick wins with immediate, positive impacts on your code and on your organization.
Run code analysis
Visualize technical debt
Focus on refactoring targets
Implement quality gates for all new code
Real cost of technical debt
Why does managing technical debt matter?
Every day, the software industry learns the hard way about the cost of technical debt. Now, research shows how to quantify that cost.
15x fewer bugs
Problematic code produces significantly more bugs over time.
2x faster development time
It also increases costs by slowing development, sometimes by a factor of 2x or more.
9x lower uncertainty
It adds up quickly in terms of developer time, customers who experience bugs, and the opportunity cost of the features that are never built.
A more proactive way of working
Up to 42% of development time is wasted due to technical debt. Change that with healthy code.
With the focus that CodeScene brings, reducing technical debt is no longer a struggle with no end in sight. Instead, CodeScene gives you a roadmap to a series of quick wins with immediate, positive impacts on your code and your organization.
Start with 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.
See how CodeScene prioritizes technical debt
Hotspots Analysis identifies code with high development activity
Any technical debt in this part is likely to have high interest and big impact.
Testimonials
What are our amazing customers saying?
"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 makes it very easy to surface technical debt and assists in continuously monitoring your code health. It even gives you clear instructions on fixing code health declines.”
