Category: Code Review
Articles on how to best use NDepend for code review, and thoughts on how to improve the process across teams in your organization.
The proper usages of Exceptions in C#
The C# exception basics are generally well understood. However exceptions are often used as a way to sweep error handling duty under the carpet. As I did in The proper...
Top 10 .NET 5.0 new APIs
When a new major .NET version hits Release Candidate, it is time to use the NDepend code review changes capabilities to browse which new APIs have been added. It is...
Architecture of a C# game rendered with Blazor, Xamarin, UWP, WPF, and Winforms
When I wrote my last post Blazor Internals you need to know I came across this great project on github: AsteroidsWasm. This project is a remake in C# of the...
Case Study : Complex UI Testing
In the previous post Case Study: 2 Simple Principles to achieve High Code Maintainability I explained that the principles layered code + high coverage ratio by test are 2 simple...
Exploring .NET Core 3.0 new API
.NET Core 3.0 is representing a major step for the .NET community. It is interesting to analyze what’s new in the API directly from the compiled bits. In this post...
Shotgun Surgery: What It Is and How to Stop It
I really love the name “shotgun surgery” for describing a code smell. It’s sort of an interesting mix of aggressive and comical, and so it paints a memorable picture. I...
5 Tips to Help You Visualize Code
Source code doesn’t have any physical weight — at least not until you print it out on paper. But it carries a lot of cognitive weight. It starts off simply...
Static analysis of .NET Core 2.0 applications
NDepend v2017.3 has just been released with major improvements. One of the most requested features, now available, is the support for analyzing .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 projects. .NET...
Should You Aim for 100 Percent Test Coverage?
Test coverage serves as one of the great lightning rods in the world of software development. First, people ask whether it makes for a good metric at all. Then they...
How to Use NDepend’s Trend Charts
Imagine a scene for a moment. A year earlier, a corporate VP spun up a major software project for his organization. He brought a slew of his organization’s software developers into...
Static Analysis Issue Management Gets a Boost
Years ago, I led a team of software developers. We owned an eclectic portfolio of software real estate. It included some Winforms, Webforms, MVC, and even a bit of WPF sprinkled...
Exploring the Technical Debt In Your Codebase
Recently, I posted about how the new version of NDepend lets you compute tech debt. In that post, I learned that I had earned a “B” out of the box....
The Relationship Between Team Size and Code Quality
Over the last few years, I’ve had the occasion to observe lots of software teams. These teams come in all shapes and sizes, as the saying goes. And, not surprisingly,...
Adding Static Analysis to Your Team’s DNA
Stop me if this sounds familiar. (Well, not literally. I realize that asynchronous publication makes it hard for you to actually stop me as I type. Indulge me the figure...
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...
Keep Your Codebase Fit with Trend Metrics
A while back, I wrote a post about the importance of trends when discussing code metrics. Metrics have an impact when teams are first exposed to them, but that tends...
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,...
Improve Your Code Review Game with NDepend
Code review is a subject with which I’m quite familiar. I’m familiar first as a participant, both reviewing and being reviewed, but it goes deeper than that. As an IT...
