CodeScan

CodeScan is an end-to-end DevOps solution specifically designed for Salesforce developers. According to the vendor, it provides automated code analysis tools to help businesses improve code quality, enhance data security, increase productivity, and achieve higher efficiencies in their development processes. CodeScan is suitable for companies of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. It is used by Salesforce developers, system administrators, low-code developers, IT professionals, software development companies, and the financial services industry.

Key Features

Robust Analysis for High-Quality Code and Intuitive Governance: CodeScan provides total visibility over the health of your environment, which the vendor claims can reduce costs and increase time to market. It is claimed that immediately fixing coding errors is 150x cheaper compared to addressing them in post-production. CodeScan is said to ensure 100% adherence to native and custom Salesforce policies, aiming to eliminate costly mistakes and guarantee regulatory compliance.

Reduce Manual Processes and Support Data Security: CodeScan offers two automated modules, CodeScan (static code analysis) and OrgScan (automated scans of Salesforce rules and policies), to target coding errors and improper settings. The vendor claims that CodeScan alerts Salesforce developers the moment an error is introduced to the code repository and verifies adherence to essential considerations and processes.

Coding Errors Are a Distant Memory: According to the vendor, CodeScan aims to help move beyond human error to create code without bugs. It is claimed to reduce bugs introduced into production by over 80%, speed up code review processes, and increase release velocity. The vendor suggests that CodeScan can help in eliminating technical debt.

Guarantee Proper System Settings Every Time: CodeScan is said to provide flawless oversight for unified efforts and streamlined processes. It offers total visibility, aiming to simplify regulatory compliance, track progress with intuitive dashboards, and provide immediate, quality feedback to promote learning.

Proven Results: According to the vendor, user feedback indicates that 98% of users say CodeScan helps developers write higher quality code, 96% of users say CodeScan makes code reviews more productive, 97% of users say CodeScan helps reduce technical debt, and 98% of users plan to continue using CodeScan.

Implementation Options for Best-In-Class Code Scanner Tool: CodeScan offers self-hosted, cloud-based, and editor plugin implementation options to review code quality and security with a comprehensive Salesforce code scanning tool.

CodeScan’s Solutions: CodeScan is exclusively designed for the Salesforce platform and offers more than 800 rules for code quality and security. It is compatible with Salesforce languages, claims to be OWASP and SANS compliant, supports CI/CD pipelines, and provides IDE plugins for real-time insights. CodeScan has a simple price structure, is a top-rated app on AppExchange, and is trusted by more than 1000 developers.

CodeScan’s Static Code Analysis Solution: CodeScan is a static code-scanning tool specifically designed for Salesforce DevOps. It provides real-time visibility into code health, offers automated code reviews with easy-to-read dashboards and reports, supports custom rules, aims to help reduce technical debt, and detects code issues, vulnerabilities, and bugs.

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Inventory Management: CodeScan offers an easy-to-use, no-code interface to navigate and understand the intricacies of the Salesforce environment. It helps examine compliance requirements, address internal and Salesforce-native rules, and streamline the management of metadata, profiles, permission sets, user settings, and session settings.

Governance: CodeScan aims to ensure 100% adherence to native and custom Salesforce policies. It provides immediate notifications and explanations of specific policy failures, aims to homogenize permissions, rules, and settings to maintain consistency, and aims to help maintain governance control within the organization.

Analysis: CodeScan aims to help gather actionable information to address current needs, define policy parameters, and assess the team's ability to meet preset standards. It provides specialized dashboards and reports for detailed information about the enforcement of policies and aims to enable data-driven decision-making regarding code quality, security, and compliance.

Cloud-Based Source Code Analysis Tools: CodeScan allows secure access from any connected device without the need for on-site installation. It analyzes Lightning, Visualforce, Metadata, and Apex code for security vulnerabilities and bugs, offers complete language coverage compatible with Salesforce languages and metadata, and provides unlimited line capacity for code analysis.

Editor Plugins: CodeScan integrates with popular code editors for real-time feedback while coding. It provides immediate notifications and suggestions to improve code quality and security, enhances developer productivity by eliminating the need for manual code reviews, and supports popular code editors for compatibility and ease of use.

Enhanced Organization: CodeScan offers expanded metadata rules specifically addressing profiles, permission sets, user settings, session settings, and flow. It provides reliable analysis of metadata rules with integration of new UI elements, personalized dashboards for complete visibility, and straightforward functionality usable by admins, low-code developers, and more.

Security Standard Conformance: CodeScan claims to adhere to SANS, OWASP, and CWE frameworks to ensure security standard compliance. It aims to identify potential security risks in code structure, provide real-time alerts, help prevent security breaches, and enhance data security by identifying and rectifying poorly constructed code lines.

Automate the Review Process: CodeScan automatically creates user alerts for coding errors and issues, streamlines the code review process, includes built-in rules to standardize coding, and supports unlimited line capacity for code analysis.

Increased Workflow Speed: CodeScan aims to provide real-time visibility and feedback to support code quality and collaboration, reduce code review time by automatically reviewing individual lines of code, improve team productivity by enabling quicker interventions and resolutions, and ensure consistent coding results with increased control over code quality.