Ryan B.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/2/2024

"Unearthing technical debt, identifying lost knowledge and enabling non-tech stakeholders empathy"

4/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

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.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

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.

What problems is CodeScene solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code hotspots are now visible and represented well, knowledge islands and lost knowledge are visible and can be addressed with kowledge distribution, data on how teams interact with each other is useful, metrics on our team experience levels over time helps set expectations for delivery and being able to set real world refactoringh targets is great in terms of measurement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CodeScene Reviews & Product Details

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. 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 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.

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Get instant feedback on your code with real prioritizations on how your software projects are performing. Filter by team, measure progress and use in retrospectives and daily stand ups.

CodeScene Demo - Identify Hotspots with hidden risks - prioritize low code health issues based on impact

Use File Level Hotspots Map's Code Health to get a quick assessment of potential technical debt or maintenance problems, prioritize issues and actions based on impact. CodeScene looks both at code metrics and how development organization works with the code. Because it includes social and te...

CodeScene Demo - Prioritize Refactoring Targets based on Impact

Identify refactoring targets that should be dealt with first. Remediating technical debt or code quality issues in the red refactoring targets is likely to quickly produce a real return on your refactoring investment. CodeScene employs algorithms that look at deeper change patterns in the an...

CodeScene Demo - Social Side of the Code - understand organization building the code

CodeScene – with its additional data sources – can analyze aspects like knowledge distribution, team coupling, and off-boarding risks. Modularity alone doesn’t guarantee a successful software architecture. The organization which builds the code has been invisible in the code itself. Organi...

CodeScene Demo - Automate Code Reviews - Integrate CodeScene with Pull Requests

CodeScene offers an automated integration with GitHub, BitBucket, Azure DevOps or GitLab pull requests to incorporate the Delta Analysis results into existing delivery workflows. Detect code quality issues early on and get recommendations. The purposes of CodeScene’s pull request integration ...

CodeScene Demo - Identify Knowledge gaps in your teams

Using the Knowledge Risk view, you can further drill down and identify the areas where your system is vulnerable. Are there any high-risk modules with code health issues written by only one developer? What would happen if that person would leave the company? Consider on-boarding another person in...

You'll quickly understand how you can visualize codebases of any size and pinpoint technical debt that is slowing you down using Hotspot Maps. You'll also understand how to refactor code based based on the biggest benefits.

In this demonstration, we'll explore essential techniques and key organizational metrics crucial for the success of any software project. How can we measure and mitigate the risks of the Bus Factor?

In this demo we point out technical debt – a refactoring target – that we want to improve. Using CodeScene ACE’s extension for VS code we automatically refactor the relevant code smells using AI-gen.

CodeScene integrates with pull requests to provide feedback and detect code quality issues via an automated code review. It's a helps development teams by serving as a quality gate and an early feedback loop. Only merge quality code.

We bring the Code Health analysis directly into your VS Code editor with our IDE extension. Tackle code complexity right within the editor, only commit high quality code. All popular programming languages are supported.

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Saravana K.

Technical Leader

Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/9/2025

"CodeScene Delivers Smart, Actionable Insights Beyond Static Analysis"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

CodeScene stands out by focusing on behavioral code analysis rather than just static rule checks. The hotspot analysis highlights the most critical and frequently changed parts of the system, making it clear where technical debt truly matters. I especially value the GitHub PR integration, where CodeScene posts automated, intelligent review comments — combining code health, test coverage, and change coupling. This ensures that risky changes are caught early, before they reach production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

The platform has a bit of a learning curve, especially for teams unfamiliar with concepts like hotspots or change coupling. The UI, while feature-rich, can feel slightly heavy on very large repositories. Integration with coverage tools like JaCoCo is powerful, but it requires some manual configuration, unlike the plug-and-play model of other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yossi Z.

SCM DevOps Group Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/9/2025

"Impactful code quality mesurements"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

Codescene helps to quickly identify various issues within your codebase, no matter how big it is - i've used it for projects ranging from 500 lines of code to over 4 million.

The issues are tangible and actionable, not just "good to know" - you really see the immediate impact of addressing them. Aside for code quality you can also view things like hidden dependencies (e.g. files that often changed together), team knowledge sharing levels, planned vs unplanned work (when integrated with PM tool such as jira), and much more information - all measurable and nicely presented. Easy to define KPIs and quality gates which are easy to integrate and enforced via pull request and ci/cd pipelines.

The integration with developer IDE (mainly vscode) is also extremely useful to catch issues early on and encourage developers to follow the "boyscout rule" when working on existing code.

The only reason i didn't give a 10 is because what's lacking for me was support for code coverage - it was recently added to the product but i have yet to try it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

It can be a bit overwhelming at first, especially for large codebase with large team that do not have clear boundaries or separation. It could take some time to define the team structure and code architecture to really utilize codescene's full potential (although even without it there is still a lot of value) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CodeScene solving and how is that benefiting you?

On project with lots of legacy code, often without proper structure, it's easy to lose focus and not understand what's important. CodeScene helps by pointing out the major "red spots" that needs attention - for example, files that already have poor code quality and are changed a lot by multiple people. it encourages improving code quality and readability, preventing potential bugs and make the code easier to maintain and faster to update. With AI integration it's easier than ever - let the Ai do the heavy lifting of the boring refactoring tasks like breaking up methods or remove duplicate code.

Besides that, in any project it helps to spot potential management issues before they happen - for example if certain code is only handled by one developer, it is a potential knowledge gap issue and risk in case the person is not available for a long period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marcus L.

Product Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2026

"Effortless Code Analysis with Swift Support"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

I like CodeScene's easy setup and how quickly it gives me a really good understanding of our codebase. The documentation is very good, and if I need personal help, they are swift in replying. It's also a very good starting point when I need help configuring the application to suit my specific needs. It's very easy to get going, and I can tweak the settings to better match my requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

There is a lot of functionality that I don't use, but that is more related to my, and my company's, use case for CodeScene. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishal C.

Principal Software Engineer | Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/9/2025

"CodeScene Certification"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

What I appreciate most about CodeScene is how it transforms code analysis into actionable insights. The platform surpasses standard static analysis by identifying hotspots, technical debt, and aspects of team dynamics, which supports engineering teams in making well-informed decisions. Its visualizations are easy to understand, and the recommendations are genuinely useful, making it simpler to prioritize refactoring efforts and enhance code health over time. Additionally, the course content is thoughtfully organized—concise, targeted, and readily applicable to real-world situations. It’s evident that CodeScene is designed with developers’ needs in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

While CodeScene offers powerful insights and visualizations, one area that could be improved is the initial onboarding experience. For new users, some of the advanced features and terminology might feel overwhelming without additional context or examples. A more guided walkthrough or interactive tutorials could help users get up to speed faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CodeScene solving and how is that benefiting you?

CodeScene helps identify and manage technical debt, code complexity, and hotspots in a codebase — problems that are often overlooked until they impact delivery timelines or system stability. By visualizing these areas and providing actionable insights, it enables teams to prioritize refactoring efforts and improve code quality proactively.

For me, the biggest benefit has been the ability to make data-driven decisions during code reviews and sprint planning. It also helps in communicating technical debt and architectural risks to non-technical stakeholders, which is crucial for long-term planning and resource allocation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Martin N.

Test and Quality Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/7/2025

"The best tool I've used that targets Maintainability quality characteristic."

4.5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

There are multiple quality characteristics (see ISO 25000 or the Heuristic Test Strategy Model) but the Maintainability-characteristic has always been a sore spot for me: Very important but difficult to test. Using Codescene I've gotten an excellent overview of the code health (the code quality so to speak) and helps setting targets.

The Pull Request reviews are especially fantastic and works as an additional senior code reviewer that reviews every piece of code that comes into the main or develop branches for all teams. This feature alone makes it possible for me to guarantee maintainability of all new code up to a certain level. For the pilot team we measured roughly a frequency of a couple of pull request analysis per day for a development team of 6-7 people.

As a Test and Quality manager it is perfect to get an overview and the developers in the teams feel that it helps them produce better code. It also helps teams do better describe the cost benefit of increasing code health/quality by spending time on refactoring certain hotspots, a benefit that can be tricky to explain to stakeholders lacking development expertise.

All in all my expectation on this tool is that the maintenance cost of our development lifecycle will decrease by a substantial degree in the future.

I had to set the server up by myself but the fast deployment using Docker was great. The software also works with common authentication methods which made it easy to connect to the software I wanted it to pull information from.

The customer support has been good, I've had a contact that replied in a quick manner and this helped us delpoy Codescene rahter quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

The downsides so far has been few, but there are some features that are difficult to use when you work with an organization where opening firewall ports or working with proxies are a challenge. There is for example an excellent integration with Azure DevOps for automatic code reviews, but if you Azure DevOps instance is on the outside of the network where Codescene is running they cannot connect without proxy or opening a firewall port. This can be handled by using local Azure DevOps agents running that can call the Codescene API, but some features such as counting the number of analyzed PR's are then not activated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CodeScene solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main challenge was how to address the Maintainability quality characteristic. For functional suitability we can perform testing and use test automation (such as unit-test up to system test) to secure that characteristic. Using Codescene we can now describe the Maintainability of the code.

We also have a challenge with code delivered by external parties and sometimes we have seen that their code lives up to the acceptance criteria but is not very maintainable and not written for maintainability (spaghetti code so to speak) . Using Codescene we can now add an additional criteria that is easily explainable and understandable and in that way we can guarantee the Maintainability of incoming code to a certain degree. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel S.

CTO, Gesellschafter

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/22/2025

"CodeScene provides not just data, but insights"

5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

CodeScene's metrics focus on the code quality in terms of reading, understanding and maintaining instead of technical details. It doesn't just analyze the code and aggregate data, it also interpretes the data and provides valuable insights.

The delta analyses and IDE intgrations provide immediate feedback for the developers.

The customer support is fast and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

It takes some time to understand the different analyses in depths and dense visualizations (the documentation helps). Sometimes it's not immediately clear how some of the aggregations are calculated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hedda D A.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/28/2025

"Excited to use and curious about what's next"

4/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

CodeScene is straightforward to set up and configure, making it easy to get started. The visualizations are excellent, and once you become familiar with navigating the tool, it is a true game changer both for developers prioritizing their work and communicating these priorities to business.

What makes CodeScene stand out in the jungle of solutions, are their dedication to the science behind good code health. I'm confident in the choices they make and the product baseline for code analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

The main challenge we face with CodeScene is getting developers to incorporate it into their daily workflow. While there are several shift-left solutions available, such as the CLI and VS Code IDE, the absence of a Visual Studio IDE integration is a significant drawback for our team. We also find the lack of out-of-the-box configurations that integrate seamlessly with our CI/CD tools to be a limitation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CodeScene solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our team has a huge stack of legacy code with potential high maintenance technical debt, CodeScene help visualize this and promote a clear view of potential blockers. Also, the primary problem CodeScene is solving for our teams is declining code health in new solutions - with the Pull Request integration we can keep our code at a high standard from early on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashok k.

Sales Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2025

"Insightful Change Tracking with No Drawbacks"

5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

It identifies which hotspot files or modules have been changed by multiple people. This insight helps the team understand where changes are happening and who has tested them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

I haven't encountered any difficulties so far; everything is working well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/6/2023

"Great tool to help team work on monoliths and individualise knowledge islands"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

Our teams really like the knoledge base feature that has helped us identify the areas where we were missing knowledge after a teams reorganization that changed the people in every team one year ago. The tool helped us identifing the high risk areas and we got the change to improve our knowledge base in the new teams.

Another very useful feature is the code health since we are working on some monoltihs and this feature helped us identify the repositories with the worst helath of code so that we could fix them right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

The integration with YouTrack is a new feature and it still needs some improvement to personalize the configuration in order to correctly defying what is unplanned work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mallikarjuna D.

Team Leader

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/24/2024

"CodeScene is a static analysis tool, It a helps development teams by serving as a quality code."

5/5

What do you like best about CodeScene?

CodeScene is a static analysis tool, It helps development teams by serving as a quality code and an early feedback loop before merging the code. Latest new features are very nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodeScene?

There is not much, they are improving day by day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.