What can Code Visibility do for you?

• Increase code quality. Code Visibility supports the two most effective code quality practices: reviews and integrated testing. By simplifying these practices, Code Visibility makes it more likely that they will be done and done well.
• Increase visibility and awareness of both coding progress and coding problems. By recording progress as it happens, architects, developers, and designers can ensure that managers and other stakeholders are immediately aware of how well progress is proceeding. And by recording issues as they arise, architects, developers, and designers can ensure that managers know about the issues and assign them to the proper personnel.
• Reduce surprises and lost trails. Sometimes, code changes get lost in the shuffle. Sometimes, everyone knows something needs to be done, but no one realizes that no one has done it. With Code Visibility, you have automated tools that will track changes that you record in the code, reducing the likelihood that knowledge gets lost.
• Reduce meeting time. Managers and others need to know the status of the code. Traditionally, there were only two ways to know the status: reading the code (which takes too long for management purposes), or holding status meetings (which just take too long, more often than not). With Code Visibility, you get most of the benefits of status meetings without the overhead. Workers update the status in the code itself, and managers and other stakeholders are notified automatically. With these tools, you only need status meetings when the status in the code itself is unclear (and even then, you can usually clear up the confusion with email messages or with one-on-one meetings).