Startup CodeSee Inc. today launched CodeSee Enterprise, a new platform designed to make it easier for enterprise software teams to build and update applications.

CodeSee previously raised a $7 million funding round in January. Earlier, in 2020, the San Francisco-based startup closed a $3 million seed investment.

Enterprise applications often comprise dozens or hundreds of individual software components. In many cases, those components depend on one another to work. For example, an e-commerce application’s checkout page may depend on a payment processing module to facilitate customer purchases.

There are also situations where multiple parts of an application depend on the same software module. If the software module experiences an outage, all the components that rely on it might experience technical issues as well. As a result, when developers update a certain part of an application’s code base, they must carefully evaluate how the update may affect other components. 

Determining what components may be affected by an update is an often complicated and time-consuming process. According to CodeSee, its newly launched CodeSee Enterprise platform eases the task. 

The platform generates diagrams that make it easier to identify when software components depend on one another to work. In a CodeSee Enterprise diagram, each of an application’s software components is visualized as a rectangle. Dependencies between components are visualized as lines. 

Mapping out dependencies usually requires developers to manually review a significant amount of code. By easing the task, CodeSee’s platform can save time for software teams and improve productivity.

“Today’s release reflects a vision we’ve had for CodeSee since day one – that we want to end the longstanding truth that our code is not easily accessible and the only way to understand it is to read it line by line,” said CodeSee co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Shanea Leven.

CodeSee has combined its platform’s core feature set with capabilities designed to ease code reviews. A code review is a type of assessment in which developers check a software update for potential errors before releasing it.

When evaluating a software change, developers can use CodeSee Enterprise to identify which components of an application are affected by the change. The platform highlights the specific code files that are set to be added, modified or removed. Moreover, it points out what components depend on those files to work.

CodeSee Enterprise can be configured to deliver useful technical information to programmers at opportune moments. A software team could, for example, configure the platform to remind developers that newly added code should encrypt the data it processes.

To help companies manage developer access to their CodeSee Enterprise deployments, CodeSee has equipped the platform with single sign-on support. The startup also provides several other cybersecurity controls, as well as a version of the platform that can be deployed on-premises.

CodeSee Enterprise is rolling out about a year after CodeSee released an open-source tool called OSS Port that is likewise designed to help developers more easily navigate software projects. The startup says that its software is used by thousands of developers, including engineers at Salesforce.com Inc., Snyk Inc. and other prominent enterprise technology companies. 

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