Month: May 2016
Managing Risk in your Project with Static Analysis
When software developer talk about static analysis, it’s often in the context of craft improvement. Ask most developers in a group about static analysis tools and you’ll get a range...
Static Analysis and The Other Kind of False Positives
A common complaint and source of resistance to the adoption of static analysis is the idea of false positives. And I can understand this. It requires only one case of...
4 Ways Custom Code Metrics Improve A Development Team
One of the things that has surprised me over the years is how infrequently people take advantage of custom code metrics. I say this not from the perspective of a...
The Biggest Mistake Static Analysis Could Have Prevented
As I’ve probably mentioned before, many of my clients pay me to come do assessments of their codebases, application portfolios and software practice. And, as you can no doubt imagine,...
