An Experiment in Scotch

Here’s a fas­ci­nat­ing lit­tle tool from Microsoft for teams who both have some stan­dards that they code against and want to ana­lyze how closely their code con­forms to those stan­dards. I haven’t given it a try yet but it looks like Microsoft has been using it inter­nally for quite awhile and that def­i­nitely says something.

Code stan­dards are often over­looked but they are impor­tant espe­cially on teams > 1 because a com­mon style makes it eas­ier to not worry about such things as curly brace place­ment, spaces in para­me­ter lists, etc. while focus­ing on what the code actu­ally does. Teams with­out cod­ing stan­dards are less effi­cient than teams with them. Microsoft knows this and is doing some­thing to help. I’m look­ing for­ward to giv­ing the tool a try.