This whitepaper introduces several types of code scans that are popular in the industry. Furthermore, this whitepaper illustrates how code scanning can help you in answering the following business questions:

• What is the high-level overview of the state and quality of my code?

• Where do areas of poor quality or knowledge gaps (hot spots) exist?

• What are the security risks of my application?

• What is the productivity of my team, and do they sacrifice quality for speed?

• Are there knowledge gaps or key-people risks across my teams?

• What is the effort I can expect to implement future features or improvements?