CodeScene Reviews & Product Details

The product is really state of the start code "forensics". It really helps us realize where our technical debt is and also what we should do about it. What to prioritize first to have tyhe biggest impact on quality or to reduce risk. Big fan, have used it for years.

Support is really good too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No downsides per se, but I'd like a feature so I can track quality scores over time in a nice dashboard. I like big screens on the wall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The wide range of features, from technical debt management to behavioral analysis, combined with smooth CI/CD integration, makes it a versatile tool. The ease of integration with our CI/CD pipeline and the depth of code analysis provided are standout features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the tool is feature-rich, it can be overwhelming at first, and occasional tweaks are needed for more customized analysis. The frequency of use also depends on the project size, which might limit its perceived value for smaller teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CodeScene has a great variety of integration with PM & PR tooling, which makes our lives easier to connect our existing infrastructure. It also helps us find code health issues as early & fast as possible during development. With integrated quality gates, we can react instantly during code reviews to not even let bad code go unnoticed and enter our production pipelines.

They have the best and fastest support team in the whole world! ❤️ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its vast amount of data can be overwhelming at some point, but CodeScene offers substantial documentation that almost leaves no question unanswered. With every new release, they provide more and more valuable and stunning features. So, for me, there is nothing I could complain about. :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CodeScene is great for visualizing code quality, spotting technical debt, and helping teams focus on the most important improvements. Its visual reports make it easy to understand complex codebases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CodeScene can sometimes feel overwhelming due to its complex interface and the amount of data it provides, which might make it hard for teams to quickly find actionable insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is a good platform for comprehensive code health analysis, behavioral code analysis, risk prediction and hotspot detection and the best part is automated reports with actions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve in the platform and the pricing are the parts which dislikes me most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CodeScene is good at picking up code smells and the VSCode extension makes it really easy to use and pick up code smells before they make it to version control. CodeScene offer a UI that provides a whole host of stats and metrics on our code, such as commit frequencies, knowledge distribution, code health scores along with which files are problematic and why, all of this makes it really simple to go in and improve our code. CodeScene is straightforward to get started with and offers version control PR integration where it can let us know if the code health is decreasing and how/where. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the rules set by CodeScene seem arbitrary and unnecessary, I know these can be customised to our needs but often code is dynamic. We have some APIs that are wrappers for a database or whatever which often get flagged by CodeScene but in reality, this API is probably fine for what it is. There are other examples for some of the rules CodeScene sets such as primitive obsession. Sure, you could maybe argue this is a wider problem but arbitrarily grouping primitive parameters into objects to increase our code health score doesn't feel correct. Lastly, a minor point about the UI, I would say the learning curve is somewhat steep. There are a lot of tabs, metrics and graphs which can be a bit overwhelming to navigate at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On an organisation level, the data we've gathered helps our teams move forward in a better way by having additional information and signals to facilitate delivery.

From an engineering perspective, we can help identify team productivity bottlenecks and areas most expensive to maintain, support onboarding with knowledge maps of a system or domain, assist with off boarding by identifying the areas in need of knowledge transfer, help to maintain standards and more.

CodeScene can be deployed into a continuous integration pipeline and can integrate with a git repository to automatically analyse pull requests and identify high-risk commits. The analysis can help engineers who are less experienced with the code base review high impact code changes and catch potential problems before they are delivered to the main branch of the code base.

Identifying delivery risks before they become an issue if also a beneficial signal from a product engineering team perspective. A possible scenario involves a project that involves understanding and adapting an area which contains a lot of hotspots and complex code for a team built of mostly new engineers. Using these tools allows better visibility, questions and delivery estimates.

Having this real world information up-front from an onboarding perspective for a EM, HoE, VP and CTO role is also something not to be quickly dismissed.

We not only want to identify our technical debt, but help prioritise what should be fixed and track this over time. Or from a different angle, identify what we don't need to focus on fixing and instead accept our technical debt as the impact is low, therefore the value is likely low. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interfaces can be a bit clunky at times, there is a level of onboarding needed in terms of where everything is and sadly, it does not integrate with our ticketing tool for delivery reporting (Linear). All quite minor things though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Codescene not only provides detailed insights into code complexity, hotspots, and technical debt, helping teams identify areas that need refactoring but also can predict potential risks in the codebase. You can also identify knowledge silos and areas of code that might be at risk by using the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Depending on the codebase and project, some sugestions are impossible to be applied so we need to supress a couple of improvement suggestions for the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a React JS developer time, I need some quick logic as per previous code CodeScene very intelligently understands my code and previous code very well and generates code as I want, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Other tools like ChatGpt its not understand my new requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is good for comprehensive analytics to improve code quality which allows quick feedback. Tool is easy to use which makes it good for new and experieced users to utilise. There are a number of features provided, e.g code health monitoring, hotspot anaylsis and knowledge distribution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The configuration and setup at the start is slightly hard to do for larger projects and complex codebases. It does not currently support all languages for metrics and anaylsis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.