Static Analysis

Reasoning About Code

A Better Metric than Code Coverage
ByErik Dietrich October 6, 2011September 27, 2012

My Chase of Code Coverage Perhaps it’s because fall is upon us and this is the first year in a while that I haven’t been enrolled in a Master’s of CS program (I graduated in May), I’m feeling a little academic. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been plowing through following TDD by…

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Static Analysis — Spell Check for Code
ByErik Dietrich February 18, 2011September 27, 2012

A lot of people have caught onto certain programming trends: some agility in the process generally makes things better, unit testing a code base tends to make it more reliable, etc. One thing that, in my experience, seems to lag behind in popularity is the use of static checking tools. If these are used at…

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