The RainCode Checker is a line of products dedicated to the automatic verification of coding guidelines.

Why Have Coding Guidelines in the first place ?

Code conventions are important to programmers for a number of reasons:

• 80% of the lifetime cost of a piece of software goes to maintenance.
• Hardly any software is maintained for its whole life by the original author.
• Code conventions improve the readability of the software, allowing engineers to understand new code more quickly and thoroughly.
• If you ship your source code as a product, you need to make sure it is as well packaged and clean as any other product you create.

The Product

The RainCode Checker comes with a set of predefined rules, but you can modify them to your specific needs. You can also easily select and configure the rules you want to use.

• The RainCode checker comes with a portable graphical user interface for convenient setup: defining checking projects, enabling or disabling individual rules, etc.
• Conversely, the checker can be run in unattended batch mode to deal with the largest portfolios
• The RainCode Checker produces extensive PDF reports, that can be included in compliance documents to certify that the code have been checked against a well-documented set of coding guidelines.

Supported platforms and languages

The RainCode Checker is available for the following languages:

• Ada
• C
• COBOL