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How Does Static Analysis Prevent Defects & Accelerate Delivery?
Build quality into your software from the beginning with static analysis—the simplest and most effective activity software engineers can perform to prevent defects and harden code while accelerating application delivery.
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Build quality into your software from the beginning with static analysis—the simplest and most effective activity software engineers can perform to prevent defects and harden code while accelerating application delivery.
When engineering any kind of system, checking for defects and fixing errors early (and often) pays dividends. It enables teams to significantly reduce the amount of downstream work added to the project.
Instead of engineering better software in the first place, it’s tempting to fall into a common mousetrap of software development and try to test quality into the software project at the end of the life cycle. This approach proves tempting for many, but it’s important to avoid the trap of relying heavily on unit or functional testing for product quality.
Employing static code analysis early during software implementation assists the developer in taking control and building code quality into the application from the beginning. It really is the simplest and most effective activity that software engineers can perform to prevent defects and harden code while accelerating application delivery.
Some common static analysis questions are:
Let’s address those questions head-on and see how Parasoft solutions facilitate success for developers across programming languages and security vulnerabilities.
Static code analysis (or static analysis) is a software testing activity in software development where source code is analyzed for constructs known to be associated with software errors or security vulnerabilities. When a high-risk construct is detected, the static analysis tool reports a violation for the developer to view and remediate.
Before we review some of the main benefits of static analysis, let’s review the different types of static analysis and the differences between them.
There are a few main types of static analysis, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The terms for each are below.
In its simplest form, a static analysis tool scans the source code and checks it against one or more sets of rules. For example, engineers sometimes make the mistake of using the string ‘