Month: December 2016
New Year’s Resolutions for Code Quality
Perhaps more than any other holiday I can think of, New Year’s Day has specific traditions. With other holidays, they range all over the map. While Christmas has trees, presents, rotund...
Detecting Performance Bottlenecks with NDepend
In the past, I’ve talked about the nature of static code analysis. Specifically, static analysis involves analyzing programs’ source code without actually executing them. Contrast this with runtime analysis, which...
How Much Code Should My Developers Be Responsible For?
As I work with more and more organizations, my compiled list of interesting questions grows. Seriously – I have quite the backlog. And I don’t mean interesting in the pejorative...
How to Scale Your Static Analysis Tooling
If you wander the halls of a large company with a large software development organization, you will find plenty of examples of practice and process at scale. When you see this...