IT&L@bs (an entity of Orange Business Services) joins TechDebt as a contributor

IT&L@bs, an entity of Orange Business Services which provides companies with IT expertise for strategical projects such as evaluation of critical applications, contributes to TechDebt.org.

As a contributor, IT&L@bs powers the TechDebt benchmarks repository with code quality metrics based on their development projects . Thus the IT company actively collaborates with Tocea and TechDebt.org, in order to make accessible for free an open data repository which aims to be the most representative, exhaustive and accurate benchmark on technical debt and software quality.

Beyond this contribution to TechDebt.org, IT&L@bs developers already use Scertify™ Refactoring Assessment for their projects. This free and open source plugin is designed to provide development teams with clear insights on these concerns, enabling them to:

• Improve the settings/quality profiles of their Software Quality Measurement tools (ie: Sonar, PMD, Checkstyle…)
• Smartly manage their daily tasks of the code quality remediation
• Benchmark the quality of their code and compare it with similar projects
• Assess the opportunity (and the associated cost/saving) of an application code refactoring

How to contribute ?

TechDebt is a collaborative project. You can contribute by downloading the open source tool Scertify Refactoring Assessment to power TechDebt anonymously with your own project metrics. For public contributions, please contact us at contribute@techdebt.org.

How it works ?

TechDebt is fed by real projects from all around the world, through a Sonar plugin called Scertify Refactoring Assessment. Each time a project is analyzed with Sonar/Scertify, the metrics’ results are anonymized (made anonymous) locally, then sent to the TechDebt database for benchmarks. Scertify Refactoring Assessment is under LGPLv3.

About Orange Business Services IT&L@bs

IT&L@bs, an entity of Orange Business Services,  positions itself on strategic projects with large industrial and service-sector groups, regional companies and administrations. They offer expertise, evaluation of critical applications and the supply of innovative technological solutions in the following areas: software, networks, security, quality, e-cash and smart cards. IT&L@bs brings together the expertise and know-how of Silicomp-AQL, Setib and Fime to make their clients’ communicating applications effective, to evaluate and certify the security of IT systems and solutions, to secure payment solutions and certify the associated systems and processes.

Michael MULLER (See other posts)

+10 years experienced Marketing & Communication Manager, specialized in Technology & Innovating companies. Marketing Manager at Tocea. Executive editor at http://dsisionnel.com, a french IT magazine. Creator of http://d8p.it, a cool url shortener. Dad of 2 kids.