CodeScene Cloud Release Notes

In this release, we present several enhancements to our System Map views and the ability to suppress PR findings with a comment in your pull requests.

• More flexible System Maps

System maps are now responsive whether you use a mouse or trackpad. Pinch-to-zoom to drill into the area of interest or use the scroll to get where you want to go. Freshly explore your codebase in a less hierarchical manner.

• Visualize logical dependencies in the System Maps

Change Coupling an exceptional feature that sets CodeScene apart from other tools, is now taking center stage! High Change Coupling increases the complexity of the codebase, making it harder to understand and maintain. With our improved System Maps, you can see which files change together over time. Some may be expected, e.g. to test files whereas others may be in a completely different area of the codebase. As an added bonus, you can discover coupling between modules implemented by different developers.

• Tooltips for new CodeScene users

As more users familiarise themselves with CodeScene, we have made it easier for them to understand the information being presented in the System Map view. Simply click on the tooltip button to get an explanation of the information being presented.

• Suppress pull request findings

Many customers have requested the ability to suppress findings during pull requests and we are happy to share that this is now possible. Quickly suppress a single finding, multiple, or all with a comment for the current PR. Suppressions will also be presented in the PR Statistics. The example below is from GitHub where all findings are being suppressed.

 

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Release Notes May 2023

Several improvements to the Code Health metric:

• Expand the code review with the detection of Complex Conditionals: complex conditional expressions make code hard to read, and contribute to the Complex Method code smell. It's a common issue, so we decided to add direct support for it. Complex Conditionals will be reported in the Virtual Code Review, the X-Ray, as well as our PR and IDE integrations.
• By default, any conditional expression with two or more logical operators (&&, ||) is flagged. You can change that default using the custom code health mechanism.

• Open range code health score to capture trends in complex hotspots: In previous versions, really complex code could hit the `1.0` code health floor. That meant there weren't any further trend warnings in case the code got worse. Starting with this release, we introduce a new code health algorithm with an open bottom range. That way, you can discover trends — both negative and positive — no matter how low the code health score is.

• New Code Health trend on the dashboard: For this release, we're changing what's shown in the code health trend graph to be the Average Code Health straight off.  More intuitive. The scale of the y-axis adapts to the actual changes during the selected time span, making it easy to spot even small changes in the average code health trend regardless of the size of your code base.

The 6.1 release also contains all the features we released iteratively. Some key highlights:

• Software Portfolio Overview: The Software Portfolio gives a high-level overview of all your projects in terms of CodeScene’s four factors. It is designed to make it easy to see trends impacting your entire organization and to make high-level prioritization. 

• New presentation page for PR reviews: the result page for a specific PR  has been re-designed to provide a clearer presentation of the issues, including documentation and motivation for each rule.

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Release Notes August 2022

Team-Code Alignment Explorer

To jump in, navigate to the 4 Factor Dashboard BETA and click on Team-Code Alignment

Each shape is a team and each circle represents a specific developer in that team.

 

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Release Notes September 2022

Cloud and On-prem:

• Now you can see how each of your projects is fairing across each of the 4 factors without having to dive into each of them individually.

 

Cloud:

• REST-API (Pro Plan and above): Previously only available to on-premise customers, you can now extract crucial data and execute commands using our REST API
• Ruby 3.0 Support: We are proud to announce full support for Ruby 3.0. A list of all languages CodeScene currently supports is available here

Coming soon:

Product Portfolio (Pro Plan and above): We are excited to share one more feature in the making, a Product Portfolio view... stay tuned for further updates.