Case Study: Research Institutes of Sweden boosts student engagement and code quality with CodeScene

Research Institutes of Sweden - Customer Case Study

Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) uses CodeScene in an introductory software engineering course led by researcher Markus Borg to help students tackle the common challenge of collaborating on a shared codebase. The course simulates a real development environment with team-based work, git, CI, testing, and Robocode robot projects, where the main difficulty is helping first-time team developers communicate, coordinate, and understand how their code evolves over time.

CodeScene is used for gamification and visualization, especially its code health badge and hotspot/code health views. According to Markus Borg, **CodeScene** motivated students to investigate code smells and refactoring opportunities, while also making supervision meetings and screen-sharing sessions more productive by giving students and instructors a shared visual reference for discussing the repository.

Research Institutes of Sweden

Markus Borg

Research Institutes of Sweden