This is a post that I originally wrote for the NDepend blog. If you haven’t already, go check it out! We’re building out some good content over there around static analysis, with lots more to follow. A lot of programmers have some idea of what static analysis is, as least superficially. If I mention the…
Rather than the traditional lecture approach of providing an official definition and then discussing the subject in more detail, I’m going to show you what static analysis is and then define it. Take a look at the following code and think for a second about what you see. What’s going to happen when we run…
I absolutely love statistics. Not statistics as in the school subject — I don’t particularly love that branch of mathematics with its binomial distributions and standard deviations and whatnot. I once remarked to a friend in college that statistics-the-subject seemed like the ‘science’ of taking a guess and then rigorously figuring out how wrong you…
I don’t want to go into a ton of detail on this just yet, but in broad terms, my next Pluralsight course covers the subject of static analysis. I get the sense that most people’s reaction to static analysis lies somewhere between “what’s that?” and “oh yeah, we use FX Cop sometimes.” To be sure,…
Code Reviews One thing that I tend to contemplate from time to time and have yet to post about is the idea of code reviews and what constitutes a good one. I’ve worked on projects where there was no code review process, a half-hearted review process, an annoying or counter-productive code review process, and a…
