CodeScene

About CodeScene
CodeScene is a code analysis, visualization, and reporting tool. Cross reference contextual factors such as code quality, team dynamics, and delivery output to get actionable insights to effectively reduce technical debt and deliver better code quality.
We enable software development teams to make confident, data-driven decisions that fuel performance and developer productivity
Don’t just evaluate code, elevate it.
CodeScene guides developers and technical leaders to:
- Get a holistic overview and evolution of your software system in one single dashboard.
- Identify, prioritize, and tackle technical debt based on return on investment.
- Maintain a healthy codebase with powerful CodeHealth™ Metrics, spend less time on rework and more time on innovation.
- Seamlessly integrate with Pull Requests and editors, get actionable code reviews and refactoring recommendations.
- Set Improvement goals and quality gates for teams to work towards while monitoring the progress.
- Support retrospectives by identifying areas for improvement.
- Benchmark performance against personalized trends.
Understand the social side of the code, measure socio-technical factors like key personnel dependencies, knowledge sharing and inter-team coordination.
- Put findings into context based on how your organization and your code evolves.
Supporting 28+ programming languages, CodeScene also offers an automated integration with GitHub, BitBucket, Azure DevOps or GitLab pull requests to incorporate the analysis results into existing delivery workflows. Get early warnings and recommendations about complex code before merging it to the main branch, set quality gates to trigger in case your code health declines.
Key benefits of CodeScene
- Measure code quality, organizational trends, and software delivery metrics
- Automate code reviews and set quality gates for PRs
- Get data-driven recommendations for refactoring targets based on impact
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Enabled my team to be faster
Reviewed on 2019/09/30
I really like the Delivery Performance functionalities that allows me to rapidly visualize and act...
I really like the Delivery Performance functionalities that allows me to rapidly visualize and act on the most important lead time metrics such as Lead Time for Changes or Planned vs Unplanned work. This insight and the possibility to quickly identify areas in our code with highest technical debt and complexity, areas that leads to quality issues, is a killer feature
Pros
The possibility to connect the history of your code with business metrics that allows you to drive and push for increased speed as this is increasingly more important going forward.
Cons
The user interface could be more intuitive.
- Industry: Civic & Social Organization
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
CodeScene Provides Actionable Insights
Reviewed on 2022/04/01
CodeScene as a company has been highly responsive to my input over the whole course of my engagement...
CodeScene as a company has been highly responsive to my input over the whole course of my engagement with them. My suggestions based on real-world usage contributed to improvement in the products. Throughout my entire engagement, the CodeScene team has stayed highly engaged to make sure I was getting the most out of the product. Opening the tool for the first time was a truly exciting experience, and the more I learned, the more excited and empowered I got.
Pros
CodeScene gave me a view of the code base 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. This not only improved quality but helped make sure we were focused on the most refactoring value.
Cons
There aren't a lot of downsides to this tool. The subject matter requires a lot of knowledge that takes time to attain. This is to say you have to understand the theory behind the insights to get the most value out of them. However, I'd argue that any engineering manager -should- understand this theory if they want to be effective at managing any code base. It shows up all the meaningful metrics I'd always hoped for and never knew existed.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
One of the best code quality controlling software!
Reviewed on 2022/07/12
CodeScene is one of the best visual tools to identify pull requests that leads to technical debts.
CodeScene is one of the best visual tools to identify pull requests that leads to technical debts.
Pros
The most important thing about Codescene is that it allows the software development team to remove technical debts from the source code that can severely impact the performance of the software system later.
Cons
It was indeed quite difficult to remove all the technical debts all at once and when we use this tool our release frequency decreased.
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Less expensive and easy to use.- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Making the invisible visible
Reviewed on 2020/01/08
Just recently I had the privilege of doing a formal analysis of the code base of the client using...
Just recently I had the privilege of doing a formal analysis of the code base of the client using CodeScene. I spent two days analysing the code base of around 35 active developers. The company wanted to see if some of the difficulties they had could be better understood by looking at the code and more importantly by looking at the interaction patterns with the code.
My peers were thrilled at the level of understanding they could acquire in such a short timespan! Not only does it give hope in showing that it's only a small fraction of the technical debt that actually counts, including which part! But it also gives valuable insights into concerns around the code, like team organisation, developer turnover and even product management difficulties.
I've been using CodeScene for more than a year now. I'm a technical coach and as I get to see a lot of different teams. CodeScene really improves my understanding each team's situation and thus I can be of better use to them.
Tools are only tools numbers are only numbers but when a tool is making the invisible visible then it is really, really useful for making more informed decisions!
Pros
Otherwise almost invisible information is pulled up right into our face
The incredible insight it gives into the pain points of the project in a very short time.
That it focuses on only the most costly problems
It's focus is not only code, but also team dynamics, delivery dynamics and architecture.
I don't know of other tools that look at Change Coupling
Very visual
Cons
The UX is sometimes confusing, this is probably where there's most room for improvement.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
New insights into your code and organization
Reviewed on 2020/11/04
Above all else, I appreciated that CodeScene would provide data to check my instincts about where...
Above all else, I appreciated that CodeScene would provide data to check my instincts about where and when to apply more effort to improve a design. As a developer, CodeScene’s hot spot feature helped me feel more confident (or helped me find another candidate) when I identified an area to improve. As a team manager, the metrics and graphs in CodeScene gave our team a way to monitor progress as we worked on a several week effort to make small, incremental improvements to a tricky area of code.
Pros
CodeScene gave us a new insight into a problematic area of our code - team structure. We identified a hotspot that continued to grow as we added new features. The Team Dynamics views highlighted an issue that kept the hotspot growing; several teams contributed equally to the code - a case of a missing shared mental model and lack of clear stewardship. The information generated by CodeScene helped us create a plan to improve the code and the visuals helped us tell a compelling story to our whole team.
We used CodeScene on new projects to help us come up to speed on a new project quickly. We identified the hotspots to prioritize conversation topics with the original authors as we transitioned the code from one team to another. As we started making changes to the project, I appreciated the GitHub Pull Request integration that provided an extra check to see if we had missed changing some files that had historically changed together and might have caused a bug in production.
Cons
We used the hosted solution (codescene.io) which tended to lag the on-premises version and get the newest features later. We were unable to use some of the delivery-focused features as we used Pivotal Tracker and later Clubhouse, neither of which were supported at the time. The UI was sometimes hard to get a summary of the information we needed, though that has improved with the Hotspots Code Health view.
CodeScene FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for CodeScene.Q. What type of pricing plans does CodeScene offer?
CodeScene offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: €18.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Licensed by the number of active developers in the codebases you analyse.
Q. Who are the typical users of CodeScene?
CodeScene has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does CodeScene support?
CodeScene supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does CodeScene support mobile devices?
CodeScene supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does CodeScene integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations CodeScene has
Q. What level of support does CodeScene offer?
CodeScene offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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