Continuous code quality measurement with NDepend and TeamCity

One thing I’ve found about code reviews in the past – either manual or auto-generated – is that if you do them at the end of a project, it’s too late! You always end up between a rock and a hard place where on the one hand, you feel you’ve got a steaming heap of garbage, but on the other hand you’ve got deadlines and anxious customers. What you really want to do is to bring your code quality metrics bang into the development process so they’re visible to everyone every single day. You kick them off on day one when there’s an empty project and you don’t stop until the whole thing is delivered. This is where the build server comes into play.