CodeScene’s primary use is as a tactical tool to make technical and organizational decisions around your codebase.
Since we use CodeScene ourselves we have also learned that the tool has a lot to offer for us developers in our daily work. We use CodeScene to identify refactoring targets, prioritize tests and code reviews, and to simplify on-boarding of new project members.
CodeScene also comes with a set of automated early warnings. Those warnings are fired if CodeScene detects code that requires your attention. For example, CodeScene detects code that starts to accumulate complexity, code at risk to become a Hotspot or recent high-risk commits that require extra testing of code review efforts.
An early warning is an opportunity to react and prevent future maintenance headaches. That means you want to have an overview on the state of your codebase. One of our recent features is the project status badge intended to provide such a high-level overview: