Case Study: a US software company achieves 50x faster code scanning with instinctools

a US software company speeds code scanning 50x with instinctools

The US Software Company faced the challenge of enhancing its security analysis tool, an Eclipse plugin for vulnerability detection, which required a complete code refactoring to drastically improve performance. They engaged the vendor, *instinctools, to undertake this complex task within a strict five-month deadline, which also included creating new plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, a specialized area new to the team.

*instinctools successfully executed a major refactoring of the Eclipse plugin's code and developed the new IntelliJ IDEA plugins. The solution resulted in a remarkable fifty-fold (x50) increase in the speed of the code scanner, enabling it to analyze large projects with thousands of files in just seconds. This performance boost provided the customer with the fast, agile security analysis tool they needed for their development process.