InCode: Continuous Quality Assessment and Improvement

While significant progress has been made over the last ten years in the research field of quality assessment, developers still can´t take full advantage of the benefits of these new tools and technique. We believe that there at least two main causes for this lack of adoption: (i) the lack of integration in mainstream IDEs and (ii) the lack of support for a continuous (daily) usage of QA tools. In this context we created INCODE as an Eclipe plug in that would transform quality assessment and code inspections from a standalone activity, into a continuous, agile process, fully integrated in the development life-cycle. But INCODE not only assesses continuously the quality of Java systems, it also assists developers in taking restructuring decisions, and even supports them in triggering refactorings.