Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality – A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases Adam Tornhill CodeScene Malmö, Sweden adam.tornhill@codescene.com Markus Borg RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Lund University Lund, Sweden markus.borg@ri.se ABSTRACT Code quality remains an abstract concept that fails to get traction at the business level. Consequently, software companies