Flexibility

• RainCode Checker for COBOL verifies about 70 coding rules by default . It allows you to select the rules you actually want the RainCode Checker to check, or to use them as examples to code your own rules in the tool.
• The tool is multi-platform (Windows, Unix, Solaris, and all Unix-like)
• RainCode Checker is adaptable : each company can have its specific RainCode Checker for COBOL, with its own coding guidelines.

Eclipse integration

The user-interface is now available as a stand-alone tool, or as an Eclipse plugin. This replace the aging Swing-based user-interface while retaining its most valuable property, namely, its availability on every mainstream platform.

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Testing and documentation

The Checker allows you to attach a set of positive and negative examples to each rule, so that valid cases (where the rule has been satisfied) can be compared with invalid cases (where the rule triggers an offence).

The regression testing facility checks that each rule is correctly implemented, and documents what each rule does in the generated report.

Report Generation

After you have checked the whole project against a set of rules, you can ask RainCode Checker to generate a report with different levels of detail. This report in PDF format can be used:

• as a deliverable for a third party, which lists all the sources which have been checked, with the matching list of offences; or
• as a complete documentation of the coding guidelines used within the organization or project.

Two operating mode

The RainCode Checker for COBOL comes with a user-friendly GUI for convenient definition of coding guideline projects, enabling or disabling individual coding rules, etc.

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The Checker can also be used in batch mode for unattended checking of large source code portfolio.

Videos

Usage of the COBOL checker are presented available at the following location.

Evaluation Version The RainCode Checker comes in a user-friendly GUI version. To see what it looks like, and what it can do for you, you will require the software and the license file. Please contact us to get your demonstration license file. The software shall then be available at our download site under the "Downloads" left menu item.

Need more information?

The RainCode Checker is based on the COBOL RainCode Engine, a scriptable source code analysis tool which natively recognizes several versions of the COBOL language, including a number of proprietary extensions. More information is available here.