What do you like best about the product?

I have used Codacy for various projects, both in closed and open source development. I found Codacy to be a very flexible tool for ensuring common coding standards and detecting possible code issues early.

- Support for a large variety of programming and markup languages. Even medium-sized projects quickly use a multitude of languages. For example, in addition to the project's primary programming languages, there might be parts written in, e.g., C or JavaScript; the build makes use of Makefiles or shell scripts; the configuration is provided in XML or JSON; infrastructure is configured with Docker and Terraform etc. Codacy allows me to monitor code quality for all these parts of an application in one place.

- Flexible configuration by using configuration files. While you can also configure the tools in the Codacy UI, it allows you to have the rules for code analysis saved in configuration files as part of the analyzed project. That enables the team to easily adjust the rules to their needs while having the configuration versions controlled and documented.

- Integration into your CI workflow: I have used Codacy with both GitHub and Gitlab. The integration into the CI process gives instant feedback to developers and allows the team to ensure that only validated code makes it into the project.

What do you dislike about the product?

Due to many supported languages, the detailed configuration of the rules can require some research. Here Codacy could improve the process by linking to the relevant documentation for the corresponding configuration file.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Codacy provides static code analysis, which helps set common coding standards for the project team and find potential bugs and security issues early. This results in overall better project quality. In addition, with Codacy, I can use a single tool for my projects instead of relying on various separate tools for each programming language.

What do you like best about the product?

C++ is a complex language that is easy to use in the wrong way. The integration of Codacy into our CI setup on Github ensures that our quality requirements are checked on every pull request. This ensures the high quality of our codebase.

What do you dislike about the product?

We'd like to see more tools on Codacy that target C++. Otherwise we have no remarks are very happy with what is available.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Codacy to ensure that certain quality requirements with regards to using C++ properly are being met. Having Coday automatically running tests for every pull-request ensures that all contributions made by our developers conform to the same high quality standards.

What do you like best about the product?

Codacy is simple to integrate with our typical workflow on GitHub while being pleasantly unobtrusive in everyday work. It makes itself noticed when appropriate but doesn't require any attention otherwise.

What do you dislike about the product?

Ignoring antipatterns on a per-file basis doesn't seem to be possible. We use this feature with a different static code analyzer.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're using Codacy as one of several code quality metrics. Along with the other tools, it helps us to maintain a high quality of our code base.

What do you like best about the product?

Codacy helped me a lot to improve my code, it's a great platform and a 'code mentor', I'd recommend it to anyone. I used other tools before and after starting to use Codacy but I found this as the better tradeoff between ease of use and quality.

What do you dislike about the product?

False positives, I had to disable some patterns because it was unable to correctly analyze the code, and that is somewhat a boring task, and you also have to remind yourself to enable them again after.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code quality, my code has improved a lot and I like to have a clean code. Codacy as a mentor and providing comments on how to solve the issues and flagging certain security vulnerabilities as well, it certainly helped a lot. Thank you for that.