SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE: TOOLS THAT HELP AND GUARANTEE QUALITY

Abstract

The principles of software maintenance are one of the pillars when it comes to quality. This work aims to present some tools available in the software development scenario (Super-linter and SpotlessCheck), to help the developer to write a good code in the best way and consequently guarantee the final quality of the project. The choice and use of a pipeline is due to the possibility of creating a series of steps to be carried out, which makes the process dynamic. The CI/CD methodology was used, which facilitates the constant deliveries made by the developers. Because the test project is hosted in a GitHub repository, GitHub Actions was the platform chosen for the pipeline, where it is possible to create workflows using CI/CD. Lint tools were used in this process in order to scan the code in order to flag stylistic errors and suspicious constructions, as well as the use of SpotlessCheck, to deepen the code scan, with the objective of issuing reports about bugs, duplications and a few more quality indicators. The hypothesis is that the entire process executed in the pipeline helps to ensure greater project maintainability.