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Making Devs, Architects, and Managers Happy with the Static Analysis Tool

October 27, 2016 2 minutes read Organizations come to possess a static analysis tool in a variety of ways.  In some cases, management decides on some kind of quality initiative...
Erik Dietrich October 27, 2016

Static Analysis Isn’t Just for Techies

July 21, 2016 2 minutes read I do a lot of work with and around static analysis tools.  Obviously, I write for this blog.  I also have a consulting practice...
Erik Dietrich July 21, 2016

Managing Risk in your Project with Static Analysis

May 26, 2016 2 minutes read 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...
Erik Dietrich May 26, 2016

Static Analysis and The Other Kind of False Positives

May 19, 2016 2 minutes read A common complaint and source of resistance to the adoption of static analysis is the idea of false positives.  And I can understand this....
Erik Dietrich May 19, 2016

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,...
Erik Dietrich May 5, 2016

How to Add Static Analysis to Your Development Process

March 31, 2016 2 minutes read As a consultant, one of the more universal things that I’ve observed over the years is managerial hand-waving.  This comes in a lot with the...
Erik Dietrich March 31, 2016

Static Analysis for Small Business

March 10, 2016 1 minutes read I was asked recently, kind of off the cuff, whether I thought that static analysis made sense for small business.  I must admit that...
Erik Dietrich March 10, 2016

How Siemens Healthcare manages over 500 million lines of code – An NDepend Case Study

February 23, 2016 1 minutes read Siemens Healthcare produces imaging equipment for the medical sector in a variety of fields and is based in Germany. Looking to reduce development costs on...
NDepend February 23, 2016

Calculating the ROI of NDepend

January 28, 2016 3 minutes read Years ago, I discovered NDepend and downloaded it for a trial.  At the time, I found myself working in a .NET shop where a...
Erik Dietrich January 28, 2016

Static Analysis : Code as Data

July 8, 2015 4 minutes read A lot of programmers have some idea of what static analysis is, as least superficially.  If I mention the term, what pops into your...
Erik Dietrich July 8, 2015