You may have heard, either on the opening night or in the news, Paddy Cosgrave stating that it was when Codacy won the Final Pitch in 2014 he thought “something is happening in Portugal”.
Codacy (codacy.com) is a static analysis tool that saves development time and improves software quality, leading to savings in both Development and Maintenance costs. Currently targeting the set of languages and methodologies that power the “web world” we can only expect it to expand its coverage.
Some guys in Dublin, 2 years ago, considered this a great idea, and defended with passion by Codacy´s CEO Jaime Jorge, an idea good enough to win a Pitch Competition at Web Summit. If you’ve been there you know that this is an impressive achievement.
Kudos to Jaime and his team!
The fact is that, although not yet with Codacy, automatic static code analysis can be applicable to virtually any programing language in use today. It saves development and maintenance time, improve performance, reliability, mitigates security flaws, etc. These tools, aligned with the correct techniques, shifts left issue detection to a stage where it bears almost no cost to correct.
Any organization, either with in house, our outsourced development can introduce static analysis to assess, monitor & control, the quality of the software.
The potential of these tools is enormous ranging from the pedagogic aspect of helping developers to write better software or on-board a project, to prevent security vulnerabilities from reaching production.
Adopting these tools powers the definition of software quality service levels in both Application Maintenance or Application Development, simplifies its measurement and produce hard-factual data automatically. No perceptions or interpretations, no discussions.
No matter if you’ll use Codacy for your Scala project, or any other tool for your specific project, COBOL, JAVA, RPG, SAP, C++, ASP, C#, JScript, etc., start shifting left with automated software analytics tools. Save money and protect the future of your organization.
