AI assistants are a double-edged sword for developers. On one hand, code-generation assistants have made creating barebones applications easier and led to a surge in code pushed to GitHub. Yet just as ...

Static program analysis (or static analysis) is the analysis of computer programs performed without executing them, in contrast with dynamic program analysis, which is performed on programs during ...

"Linting" is static code analysis with an eye towards style and dodgy source code constructs. The term derives from early UNIX. Some languages and their compilers do this for you; this is the case, ...

Abstract: Cross-language programming is a common practice within the software development industry, offering developers a multitude of advantages such as expressiveness, interoperability, and ...

What is Static Code Analysis? Static code analysis is a method of testing source code without having to execute the code. It is usually performed by dedicated tools (for example by so-called linters), ...

Abstract: Various static code analysis tools have been designed to automatically detect software faults and security vulnerabilities. This paper aims to 1) conduct an empirical evaluation to assess ...

Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works. One of the handiest new features included in the Java 18 release (March 2022) was the ...

Language models of code (LMs) work well when the surrounding code provides sufficient context. This is not true when it becomes necessary to use types, functionality or APIs defined elsewhere in the ...

Regardless of an organization’s development methodology, static analysis can serve as an early warning system to identify possible defects that may cost orders of magnitude more to correct later in ...

Have you ever thought of how tools like Checkstyle or FindBugs perform a static code analysis, or how Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like NetBeans or Eclipse execute quick code fixes or ...