Stago is a medical laboratory tech company which has used NDepend with great success to meet all deadlines, better communication, and save their developer team a lot of time.

1. NDepend Case Study:
Stago

2. Meet Stago
A pharmaceutical firm which provides advanced
testing systems and services to laboratories
worldwide. Working in such an important industry,
it was imperative for Stago to be able to provide
bug-free systems on a timely schedule. Looking to
improve their processes, they looked at current
market offerings to find a solution that would help
them become more efficient, communicate better,
and help them produce quality products.

3. Challenges

4. As their .NET team grew, the requirements needed to effectively
supervise an increasing amount of code production expanded in
complexity and criticality.
Improving development quality and minimizing time was critical. It was
also important to reduce the amount of resources required for every
project and to eliminate business disruption due to code quality issues.
They had their own coding conventions and best practices and needed
to efficiently assure compliance. A tool which would let them add
custom code rules was essential.
Stago started looking for automated processes to help their developers.

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We selected NDepend after reviewing all the other
options on the market and it quickly became the
backbone of our development effort. It ensures we
always deliver superb quality code, on time, on budget
and with the minimum required level of effort.
- Fabien Prestavoine,
Architect

6. Solution

7. Around a hundred custom code rules that are checked
continuously, both in the developer environment and during the
build process.
The rules are easily updated, so unwanted practices are quickly
dealt with and removed by adding a code rule to check for them.
All custom coding rules are frequently checked on the
developer's machine. Both NDepend’s analysis and rule execution
typically takes less than 5 seconds.
Stago’s team started using NDepend without any external training
or consulting in a matter of days.
Questions about the tool were answered in the embedded help or
in the online documentation.
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8. “
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Since we adopted NDepend we have saved the
equivalent of several man-years in time and cost.
We have also suffered no breakdown of our applications
in production.
- Fabien Prestavoine,
Architect

9. Benefits

10. Since using NDepend, all development projects have been
delivered on time.
Architects and developers need to focus less on QA, can focus
more on developing.
Improved relationships between developers and architects.
No surprises from development are carried into testing and
maintenance.
Developers’ skills increased as their bad practices were
continuously detected and dealt with.
Happier customers and a better, more reliable, end product.
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11. Refactor Trend Chart

12. “
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…we are often focused on the result and the satisfaction
of the customer needs at the end of each sprint.
Sometimes that means a mass production of code,
respecting little or not at all the good coding practices
and transgressing architecture rules implemented by the
architects. Fortunately, tools like NDepend are there, to
remind us that this is not the proper way to do it, and
enforcing the rules before the commits.
- Mourad Chibane,
Head of R&D at Stago

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