The story behind Cape of Good Code
The actual "start-up" phase lasted from 2012 to 2017. Many ideas, approaches, concepts and business plans were developed and discarded during this time. We also had to convince our families to give up the security of our good jobs for this. Then came the plunge in 2018 and the Cape of Good Code company was founded.
At first, the most promising approaches were selected from the various tools established on the market and enhanced with many of our own and innovative analysis features. The performance potential of our new approach convinced investors, but also the Bavarian State's funding initiative for digital technologies, which supported the development of the analysis software to market maturity with a significant financial contribution. Our current software analysis suite DETANGLE was the result and has proven itself and developed further in many projects since 2019.
The solution approach was in the end simple, as software code, version management, ticketing systems and DevOps platforms contain a lot of information from which quality issues can be uncovered. What was missing was a tool that could summarise this information and data into new and meaningful metrics, so that developers and managers could be given the right and prioritised recommendations for holistic quality improvements.
For the two experienced developers, it did not take long before the first cornerstones for a new type of analysis software were set. This was the trigger for Cape of Good Code and DETANGLE.
