ndepend : The .NET Code Quality and Security Tool

• As a static analyzer, NDepend is likely to identify numerous issues that impact your codebase. Halting work to address all these issues for weeks would be highly unproductive.
• This is precisely why NDepend suggests to focus on progress since a baseline snapshot of your code base. The tool estimates the technical debt delta since the baseline.
• The tool highlights recent code smells and regressions that should be addressed before committing any code to the source control system
• As a result, the Code Quality remains under control with no substantial upfront investment.

• A Quality Gate is a code quality criterion that must be enforced before releasing and eventually, before committing to source control.
• A dozen of default Quality Gates are continuously checking measures such as overall Code Coverage by tests or Technical Debt added since baseline.
• With NDepend, a Quality Gate is a C# LINQ query easy to customize and create. This unique approach offers the required level of flexibility to enforce what really matters for your organization.

Because a picture is worth a thousand words, NDepend proposes several unique ways to visualize your code. This includes:

    

• Because we know developer time is invaluable, NDepend is fast, very fast.
• Reports are generated in seconds. This stands in contrast with slow and complex solutions which require minutes or even hours to complete.
• The overall technical debt is re-estimated after each compilation within the IDE or in a side-by-side standalone app, without any noticeable slow down.
• Addressing issues is straightforward since developers are promptly informed of new issues and regressions, while the context is still fresh in their minds.

• Code maintainability improves. This positively boosts the productivity of development teams.
• Gradually, developers become more proficient about rules to follow and their skills improve.
• Architects can foresee the impact of code changes. The right decisions are taken early.
• With an ongoing and automated code quality assessment, emphasizing recent changes, both in the IDE and in the DevOps, the team consistently builds better code.
• This, in turn, empowers executives to exercise costs and risks management thanks to light being shed on development facts and trends that matter most.

• Issues generated by any Roslyn Analyzer can be imported in the NDepend model.
• This means that all aspects of .NET Code Quality and Security can be monitored through NDepend.
• When comparing against a baseline, NDepend detects which Roslyn Analyzer issue is new, unresolved or fixed since the baseline.
• Use the NDepend Quality Gates feature to stop the build if some Roslyn Analyzers failure conditions are met.
• See an NDepend report importing Roslyn Analyzer here.