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.
What is Code Review? – Guidelines and Best Practices
July 19, 2021 9 minutes read Code review is the process of mandating systematically one or several developers to review the code written by another developer in other to detects...
The proper usages of Exceptions in C#
December 16, 2020 9 minutes read The C# exception basics are generally well understood. However exceptions are often used as a way to sweep error handling duty under the carpet....
Top 10 .NET 5.0 new APIs
September 21, 2020 9 minutes read When a new major .NET version hits Release Candidate, it is time to use the NDepend code review changes capabilities to browse which new...
Architecture of a C# game rendered with Blazor, Xamarin, UWP, WPF, and Winforms
September 15, 2020 5 minutes read When I wrote my last post Blazor Internals you need to know I came across this great project on github: AsteroidsWasm. This project is...
Case Study : Complex UI Testing
April 29, 2020 6 minutes read In the previous post Case Study: 2 Simple Principles to achieve High Code Maintainability I explained that the principles layered code + high coverage...
Exploring .NET Core 3.0 new API
February 21, 2019 9 minutes read .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...
Shotgun Surgery: What It Is and How to Stop It
October 2, 2018 1 minutes read 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...
5 Tips to Help You Visualize Code
November 16, 2017 2 minutes read Source code doesn’t have any physical weight — at least not until you print it out on paper. But it carries a lot of...
Static analysis of .NET Core 2.0 applications
October 12, 2017 3 minutes read 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...
Should You Aim for 100 Percent Test Coverage?
June 22, 2017 2 minutes read Test coverage serves as one of the great lightning rods in the world of software development. First, people ask whether it makes for a...
How to Use NDepend’s Trend Charts
June 8, 2017 1 minutes read 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...
Static Analysis Issue Management Gets a Boost
March 23, 2017 2 minutes read 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...
Exploring the Technical Debt In Your Codebase
March 3, 2017 1 minutes read Recently, I posted about how the new version of NDepend lets you compute tech debt. In that post, I learned that I had earned...
The Relationship Between Team Size and Code Quality
January 19, 2017 1 minutes read 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...
Adding Static Analysis to Your Team’s DNA
January 12, 2017 1 minutes read Stop me if this sounds familiar. (Well, not literally. I realize that asynchronous publication makes it hard for you to actually stop me as...
New Year’s Resolutions for Code Quality
December 29, 2016 2 minutes read 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....
Detecting Performance Bottlenecks with NDepend
December 15, 2016 2 minutes read 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....
Keep Your Codebase Fit with Trend Metrics
September 1, 2016 2 minutes read A while back, I wrote a post about the importance of trends when discussing code metrics. Metrics have an impact when teams are first...
The Biggest Mistake Static Analysis Could Have Prevented
May 5, 2016 2 minutes read 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,...
Improve Your Code Review Game with NDepend
April 21, 2016 3 minutes read 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...