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Our TiCS Framework: code quality for high-tech firms

TiCS is our software code quality framework that allows you to effectively measure and monitor the software code quality of all your projects. The framework integrates all your software quality data of various tools into one convenient environment. Easily maneuver through your projects, locate files that need improvements, and generate to-do lists based on your quality checks to determine how your files can be improved.

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The road to code quality improvement starts with proper measurements.

  • High-level overview of the quality of all your projects.
  • Drill down to individual files and their violations.
  • Using software product quality standard ISO/IEC 25010.
  • Able to tailor TiCS to your specific organizational needs.
  • Bit-to-board support for software quality improvements.

Code Quality for All Levels of Your Organization

TiCS comes in multiple layers, each for different levels of your organization. Are you a software engineer? Our IDE plug-ins will give immediate feedback on how you can improve the quality of your code. Leading a team of many developers? See which projects require your attention and track how your software quality has changed over time. Do you manage multiple software development sites in your organization? Use our enterprise dashboard to track your entire organization’s development portfolio.

Curious about the look and feel of our TiCS framework? You can find a demo version here!

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How can our TiCS Framework help you?

Benefits of using TIOBE’s TiCS Framework

Higher delivery speed

Higher productivity

Reliable and secure code

Happier developers

Happier customers

TiCS as your software quality partner

Our TiCS Framework combines the results of a large set of static analyzers and allows you to access them in one dashboard. The results of all these tools are mapped against the same Quality Model so you can compare results across projects even if they use different tools. The tools that run under the hood of TiCS are all orchestrated and maintained by TIOBE, which drastically decreases your cost of ownership for these tools. TiCS integrates into your CI/CD pipeline and IDEs, allowing the use of quality gates at all critical points in the development process.

This allows your organization to spend more time on what really matters: creating better software.

Supported languages and integrations

Features of our TiCS Framework

  • Deploy state-of-the-art static analysers without the usual cost of ownership.
  • Integrate directly into both CI/CD systems and IDEs.
  • Benchmark your quality against 8,000+ other projects.
  • Measure your code against proven, independent quality models.
  • Automatically generate ToDo lists to improve quality.
TiCS supports programming languages C C++ C# Java Python Javascript Matlab Typescript, customization and many more factsheet

Reviews

“TiCS has been a substantial factor in increasing our developer productivity.”

Han Schaminée - Former SVP Vehicle Location Technology - TomTom

“We enhanced our vendor management through rigorous software quality validations based on objective ISO standards thanks to TIOBE.”

Sander Veenstra - Principal IT Development Expert - European Central Bank

“With TIOBE’s scans, we have been able to gain insights into software quality during our tender. This helped us a lot in better assessing and managing the risks of the development process”

Roland Janssen - Policy Expert QA Meters Asset Management - Enexis Group

Most Frequently Asked Questions

The sooner the better, for many reasons. The most important reasons are:

Your code base is growing, and with that your technical debt. The longer you wait, the more code that needs to be rewritten.

TiCS does not only point out the code quality issues, but it also educates your developers in writing better code. It takes time and effort to improve the development skills of your developers.

Sometimes coding standard rules are not straightforward. For example, the line length limit is set to 100. You might want to allow 105 in a particular case. Simply because it’s not about the line length but really about readability of code. How can one ensure these rules and checks are “humane”?

The maximum length of a line is just one rule to increase readability, and not the most important one as well. At TIOBE we have 2 means to have a workable solution:

Setting severity levels to rules to ensure the focus is on the most important rules.
Allowing suppressions for specific rules at specific locations in the code to ensure you can deviate if there is a good reason for it. Good to mention is that you also receive a clear overview of all suppressions in the code.

Agile methodologies like Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming (PP) can contribute to a faster development process and more importantly more reliable code. TIOBE contributes to this process in several ways. Just to mention a few:

TiCS measures code coverage on a continuous basis. Doing so, TIOBE supports in monitoring to which extent TDD is applied effectively throughout the project.
TiCS can be run from an IDE, before checking in the code. TiCS allows filtering on critical violations to the coding standard, making the pair programming more effective, focusing on the positive business impact that the code should make.

Feedback is key to improvement. Therefore TIOBE is putting all efforts in providing the feedback as soon as possible, and in the right format, from bit to board.

At development-level, feedback is provided via direct checking of the code, before it is checked in, but also with quality gates stopping defects slipping through. Marking what is wrong, why it’s wrong and how to do it better.

At management level, our TiCS dashboard highlights which projects are improving, where the major risks are in your software products and which systems are at acceptable quality levels.

This way, TIOBE helps in not only fixing violations, but ensuring that the code is improving.

Request a free Proof-of-Concept!

During a free Proof-of-Concept, TIOBE will analyze a project of your choosing using the TiCS Framework. The analysis can be done completely on-prem, so there is no need to upload any source code. After the analysis, you will be provided with a dashboard, detailing all the results, and our Quality Engineers will present their findings to your organization. Based on those results, you can decide whether TiCS adds value for your organization!