New! Version 2.0 will be released in January 2009. Click here for a list of the new features available in this release.

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:

on Windows/NT, Windows 2000, Linux or any commercial Unix flavour.

February 2009: RainCode's Datacom migration solution, named DataKom version 3.0 is released. It includes support for the most exotic and dynamic features of Datacom, and can target Oracle or DB/2 for persistence.

November 2008: Version 2.0 of RainCode's coding guidelines enforcement tool The RainCode Checker will be released in January 2009. The Checker is available for Ada, C and COBOL, and comes as an Eclipse plugin for its user interface.

September 2008: Raincode is now member of the Mainframe Migration Alliance. Check this press release for more information.

August 2008: All the versions of the RainCode engine can now access a number of relational databases, including Oracle, MySql and Postgres.

March 2008: RainCode proudly releases a complete Datacom migration solution named DataKom which covers all aspects of Datacom migration: CA-IDEAL, COBOL programs and data migration.

September 2007: The RainCode Engine for COBOL computes the size and offsets of data elements according to the ANSI standard, and can be used to find and analyze data elements based on how and where they are represented physically in memory.

RainCode is a proud member of the Mainframe Migration Alliance