Proactive Code Check for the Impact Store Application
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Summary of Proactive Code Check for the Impact Store Application
The Proactive Code Check feature assists developers in scanning update sets for leading practice violations in non-production instances prior to production promotion. This capability provides Platform Owners with insights into technical debt and instance stability, enhancing overall code quality and compliance verification.
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Key Features
- Update Set Scanning: Analyzes code and configuration changes against ServiceNow best practices and compliance standards, identifying security vulnerabilities and performance issues early in development.
- Real-Time Feedback: Offers actionable insights and recommendations to developers, allowing immediate resolution of issues.
- Instance-Specific Integration: Scans run directly within your instance to maintain data security, with findings saved locally for easy access.
- Comprehensive Reporting: Findings are prioritized, with reports offering trend analysis and performance monitoring to track improvements over time.
- Synchronization: Code review reports from non-production can be synced to configured production instances for review.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing Proactive Code Check, ServiceNow customers can expect improved code quality, reduced errors, and enhanced compliance verification. The feature allows for efficient monitoring of technical debt and stability across instances, ultimately supporting a smoother transition to production.
Developers scan update sets for leading practice violations in non-production instances before promoting to production and Platform Owners gain insight into technical debt and stability of both non-production and production instances, resulting in improved code quality, reduced errors, and compliance verification.
Proactive Code Check key features
Proactive Code Check can be used to perform a code review in your instances.
- Update set scanning
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- Scans code and configuration changes against predefined ServiceNow leading practices and compliance standards for the specific update set.
- Detects security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and coding inefficiencies early in the development lifecycle.
- Improve code quality, reduce errors, and verify compliance before promoting to production.
- Real-time feedback
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- Provides actionable insights and recommendations for resolving identified issues.
- Delivers results in real time, enabling developers to address problems without delays.
- Instance-specific integration
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- Scans run directly within your instance, ensuring data security and compliance.
- Findings are saved locally for easy access and reporting.
- Comprehensive reporting
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- Findings are categorized by priority, allowing users to focus on critical issues.
- Reports include trend analysis and delta comparisons to track improvement over time.
- Gain insight into technical debt and the stability of instances to easily monitor the status of issue remediation efforts using performance reports
- Synchronize scan results to production
- Code review reports on update sets in non-production instances can be synced for review in a configured production instance
Proactive Code Check scan categories
Proactive Code Check performs leading practice checks related to the categories in the following table.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Manageability | Measures the extent to which ServiceNow instances, applications, or infrastructure can be effectively upgraded, monitored, and maintained. |
| Performance | Measures the efficiency of a ServiceNow instance, encompassing aspects such as speed, responsiveness, resource utilization, and overall dependability. |
| Security | Measures implementation of protocols across a ServiceNow instance to prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, cyber attacks, and potential vulnerabilities. |
| Upgradeability | Assesses the ease of enhancing a ServiceNow instance or application with new features, improvements, security patches, or compatibility adjustments. |