Foundstone CodeScout™ is a free tool developed by Foundstone to help application developers and code reviewers validate adherence to coding best practices and determine the complexity and scope of a code base. The tool is a plugin that comes with a set of default rules as well as functionality allowing power users to define their own rules. This tool helps users automate part of the code review process by identifying potential hot-spots in the code base and provides useful metrics about to size and scope of the source code of a project.