Static analysis tools find defects in code, checking code against rules to reveal potential
defects. Many studies have evaluated these tools by measuring their ability to detect known …

Context: Code review is a valuable software process that helps software practitioners to
identify a variety of defects in code. Even though many code review tools and static analysis …

Static analysis tools have achieved great success in recent years in automating the process
of detecting defects in software. However, these sophisticated tools have yet to gain …

Static analysis tools find silly mistakes, confusing code, bad practices and property
violations. But software developers and organizations may or may not care about all these …

Grown software systems often contain code that is not necessary anymore. Such
unnecessary code wastes resources during development and maintenance, for example …

Modern code reviews tend to take a lightweight process, in which the accuracy and
efficiency of identifying defects rely heavily on code reviewers' experience. The human …

Using static analysis tools for automating code inspections can be beneficial for software
engineers. Such tools can make finding bugs, or software defects, faster and cheaper than …

Abstract Background: Developers use Static Analysis Tools (SATs) to control for potential
quality issues in source code, including defects and technical debt. Tool vendors have …

Static analysis tools are frequently used to scan the source code and detect deviations from
the project coding guidelines. Given their importance, linters are often introduced to …

Abstract Developers often use Static Code Analysis Tools (SCAT) to automatically detect
different kinds of quality flaws in their source code. Since many warnings raised by SCATs …