CODEQ INVEST

CodeQ Invest implements a model for investment in quality based on the SQALE method. Instead of just pointing at problems in your code base this helps you to determine which problems should be fixed to gain an immediate productivity advantage... You define quality requirements (e.g. code coverage should be greater than 80%) and estimate how long it would take to fix the violation of such a requirement. Then you estimate how expensive (in terms of time) it would be to leave the violation untouched. The first estimate are the remediation costs (RC) and the latter the non-remediation costs (NRC). From these two estimates a profit is derived: the time you save when you fix the violation, NRC - RC. This is the basic idea of the quality investment... The quality investment makes a proper management of internal software quality possible. This metaphor enables you to report the internal software quality in a useful way to business people. As a team you think in terms of return on investment..