Posts Tagged With 'static analysis'
Updated 2023-07-06
Recently I realized that there is a common pattern for many testing-like activities performed during daily development cycles. Many of them provide the biggest benefit if their results are reported in an incremental manner, i.e. against individual change requests, rather than against the whole code base.
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Static analysis is great because it allows to catch many types of issues without the need to run the code. It is not perfect however. When you consider it in the scope of a big evolving project, there dangers not always pointed out by the adopters. The main danger is …
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Definition
Static analysis (SA) happens when any partial execution of program code happens. That is, the code is treated as having different semantics, only partially matching what the compilation/interpretation (C/I) process is extracting from it.
Neither executable translation artifacts (object files and executables from compilation) nor behavioral effects …
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