Automated Code Analysis: The Next Big Thing in 2020 Software Quality

2020: Automated Code Analysis Emerges as the Next Big Thing in Software Quality an amazing article by betanews reviewing the results of The State of Software Quality 2020 survey results.

My first reaction was: I love when random surveys confirm DeepCode (The Software Revolution) vision from 3–4 years ago. It great to see that the passion, thought-leadership, and hard work of the team have delivered a service that already benefits millions of developers and will help tens of millions more in the coming months and years.

My Top 3 results from the survey:

1. 70% of devs say software quality trumps delivery speed, yet critical production issues persist. I am tempted to add a reference point to highlight the sheer scale of production problems: “the [yearly] cost of poor-quality software in the US [was] approximately $2.84 trillion … on US GDP ($20.4 T)” [1] So, around 10% of US GDP.

2. 50% of teams experiencing customer-impacting issues once or more per month

3. Tools participants plan to adopt in 2020: 37% said static code analysis and 28% said dynamic code analysis: putting these analysis tools at the top of the list. By the way, this is almost an exponential growth in the space given past year trends.

Here are more details on the reference [1] THE-COST-OF-POOR-QUALITY-SOFTWARE-IN-THE-US-2018-REPORT.PDF from the Consortium for Information & Software Quality™ (CISQ™)

Source: [1] THE-COST-OF-POOR-QUALITY-SOFTWARE-IN-THE-US-2018-REPORT.PDF

In conclusion, I have never been so excited about the impact unlocked by DeepCode and all the innovations that the currently wasted resources will deliver for the world and our society. You can start using DeepCode immediately with zero set-up, no contracts or payments required: just log-in with your existing git account.