Gamification of a Static Analysis Tool: A brief look into developer motivation

Software development is more than only implementing the functional code. A developer is also responsible for writing code measuring up to certain standards and conventions. These conventions make sure that the code is of a particular quality that improves readability and eases maintainability. Some of these conventions are checked by automated...

Usage of Static Analysis Tools in the Integrated Development Environment

Developers make use of automation to perform repetitive and potentially error- prone tasks. One such automation can be categorised as, which aims to analyse program properties. The particular focus of this investigation are so-called ASATs (Automatic Static Analysis Tools). These ASATs are readily available for many programming languages and can...

Analyzing the State of Static Analysis: A Large-Scale Evaluation in Open Source Software

The use of automatic static analysis has been a software engineering best practice for decades. However, we still do not know a lot about its use in real-world software projects: How prevalent is the use of Automated Static Analysis Tools (ASATs) such as FindBugs and JSHint? How do developers use these tools, and how does their use evolve over...