BrowserStack Code Quality for Visual Studio

BrowserStack Code Quality (BrowserStack-CQ) is an AI-based software analytics platform designed to empower development teams in analyzing and significantly improving software quality. It deeply analyzes your source code across four critical dimensions: code issues, design issues, metrics, and duplication. By doing so, it uncovers and surfaces issues that directly impact the stability, robustness, security, and maintainability of your codebase. The innovative BrowserStack-CQ Score provides an intuitive understanding of risk areas, enabling teams to efficiently prioritize and address the most impactful fixes.

Prerequisites

To use the BrowserStack Code Quality Visual Studio extension, ensure you have the following installed:

1. Visual Studio 2022 or later
2. Java version 1.8 or later
3. cppcheck 2.4.1 (Only for C/C++ projects)

Install Cppcheck manually -

windows -

1. Go to 'https://sourceforge.net/projects/cppcheck/files/cppcheck/2.4/cppcheck-2.4.1-x64-Setup.msi/download'.
2. Open downloaded .msi file.
3. Install Cppcheck.
4. Check version on cmd - cppcheck --version.

Note: This extension is currently only available for C# and C/C++ projects.

How to Use

Follow these simple steps to analyze your C# or C/C++ project:

1. Navigate to the Tools Menu: Open your Visual Studio IDE. In the top menu bar, click on "Tools".

2. Initiate Code Analysis: From the "Tools" dropdown menu, click on "Analyse Project using BrowserStack Code Quality". The analysis process will begin.

3. Review Analysis Results: Once the analysis is complete, the results will automatically populate the Error List window within Visual Studio. Here, you can review all identified code quality issues, warnings, and messages.

   To check more info on code issues, right click on issue from errorlist and select "Show Error Help".

   It will open issues page for more information.

License

This plugin is governed by the BrowserStack Code Quality End User License Agreement (EULA). Please review the full terms and conditions at the following link:

End User License Agreement (EULA) for IDE Plugins