Clean As You Code

Clean As You Code

2023.09.12

Every business that writes software reaches a point where its development is expected to be clean and secure. If you do not pay attention to your development tooling, your development will quickly become costly and time-consuming, and you may put your business at serious risk.

1. Software bugs cost the economy trillions of dollars every year.
2. Developers working alongside auditors (under the traditional approach) spend 42% of their time fixing bad code.
3. 83% of security vulnerabilities are the result of mistakes rather than malicious attacks.
4. Security vulnerabilities go unnoticed for 4 years on average before they are identified.

Another great example of this is our Clean As You Code methodology, an effective and unique approach to clean code that eliminates many of the challenges associated with traditional approaches. As a developer, you focus on maintaining high standards and take responsibility for the new code you are working on (new code being, by definition, code that has been added or changed – the New Code Definition).

The benefit is that there is no longer any need to go back and fix inherited code. This happens automatically over time, simply because of the nature of software development: for example, take a company with 1 million lines of code – in the following year, it will on average change or rewrite about 20% of its codebase. If it introduces CAYC1, 20% of its codebase will be clean by the end of the year, and this percentage will keep growing every year until all earlier, inherited issues have been overwritten, without carrying the burden of technical debt.

The benefits of Clean Code:

1. Businesses gain greater productivity and strategic value when they reduce the time spent reworking bad code.
2. SonarSource is the only solution that looks for the cause at the “roots” of bad software and approaches the market from that angle.

1. Business:

1. Faster and more agile feature development
2. Lower operational and reputational risk
3. Longer code lifespan, as a genuine asset for long-term needs
4. A solid foundation for advanced security practices

2. Team:

1. Greater code ownership within the team
2. New foresight into key investment areas
3. More time for new features and technology development
4. Shorter development cycles

3. Developers:

1. Less time and cost spent fixing technical issues
2. More energy left for creating new features
3. More effective code review for better work
4. Greater job satisfaction