What is a Hotspot in CodeScene?

Most development activity is concentrated in a small number of modules. File-level Hotspot analysis highlights these modules, showing where my team spends most of its development time.

When combined with CodeScene’s Code Health perspective , hotspots help me prioritize improvements:

• Low Code Health in a hotspot → High priority, since poor quality in frequently changed code is costly.

• Low Code Health in a stable area (non-hotspot) → Lower priority, since these parts change rarely.

Hotspots are also a reliable way to uncover productivity bottlenecks in your code.

In large systems, you’ll often see multiple hotspots or even clusters of hotspots.

Clusters suggest that an entire component or package is under heavy, ongoing change.

You can access these visualizations from the analysis menu:

• Code > Hotspots

• Or click “View Hotspots” in the Code Health tab on the main analysis dashboard.

You can find more information and the use cases in the docs.