BCH online service to benchmark Code Quality

Event: Beyond Banking Days initiated by ABN AMRO.

When: 9, 10 and 11 June 2017.

Venue: Sugar City, Halfweg NL

Why your code is evaluated

It is amazing to see how far our industry has come over the past decades. New technologies, frameworks, agile processes - some of which were only recently invented - now define the way we work today. One prominently missing building block in the modern development setup is a standardised way to normatively measure code quality - a SMART 'Definition of Done' shared by all developers.

Based on 15+ years of research and tens of thousands of measurements on IT systems from numerous industries, SIG presents 'Better Code Hub’ (BCH), an online environment that allows anyone to measure how their code compares to 10 rules for future-proof code. These 10 rules code are described in SIG's book 'Building Maintainable Software', which was published with O'Reilly Media and which will be handed out at the event.

How your code is evaluated

1. Your code will be automatically evaluated against 10 guidelines for building future-proof code. Find a concise reference card of the guidelines here

2. You can check your code against the guidelines using Better Code Hub, a GitHub.com integration provided by Software Improvement Group SIG. Better Code Hub integrates with the GitHub Flow and can run in a CI/CD pipeline on all your Pull Requests and Commits.

3. 16 modern programming languages are supported with a maximum of 100 KLoc per code base.

How to get started

1. Mail your team name and personal GitHub handles to [email protected] to get Pro access for private repo's

2. Put your public or private repo on Github in your profile

3. Go to bettercodehub.com

4. get instant feedback on the guidelines and pick refactor candidates

How to get support

1. Before the event, through [email protected]

2. During the event by talking to Better Code Hub team of SIG with questions about refactoring tactics.

3. The guidelines are described in full in “Building Maintainable Software” (get your free copy during the event)

4. After the event, through [email protected]

5. Your Pro access to Better Code Hub remains valid for 1 month after the event

How the scorebord works

1. You get points based on your score in Better Code Hub, The more guidelines you get right, the higher the score. The maximum is 10 out 10.

2. Your Better Code Hub Badge and team name need to be on this digital scoreboard. Talk to us on slack or send a PR with the code.

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Let's build some great software!

Zeeger, Ravish and Michiel