Process / pipelineCode quality inspection
Static Code Analysis
Static code analysis automatically examines source code without execution, detecting potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, code smells, and style violations. Pioneered by Engler and Pugh (2001), automated analysis tools scan codebases at scale, identifying defect patterns faster than manual review. Organizations integrate static analysis into continuous integration pipelines to prevent defects early.
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Sources
- Chess, B., & West, J. (2007). Secure Programming with Static Analysis. Addison-Wesley Professional. link ↗
- Engler, D., Chen, D. Y., Hallem, S., Chou, A., & Chelf, B. (2001). Bugs as deviant behavior: A general approach to inferring errors in systems code. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (pp. 57–72). DOI: 10.1145/502034.502041 ↗
- Hovemeyer, D., & Pugh, W. (2004). Finding bugs is easy. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 29(6), 1–8. DOI: 10.1145/1041685.1029906 ↗