The following articles are helpful to improve code quality in general & more specific to java applications. This is an attempt to list down all the articles in the blog which are around Code Quality.
09 My quest towards Code Quality
The term quality might mean different things to different people based on their context of operation and it’s tough to have universal definition for the same.My experiments with software development started over a decade ago & exploring the ways the helps to build & deliver good quality code.The quest towards Code Quality Metrics started with the above objectives.
08 CRAP4J for Java Code Quality
have been talking about Code Quality through Static Analysis for a while here, here & here. The quality for any application development must begin from it’s gross roots and the Application Code is one of it’s starting point to begin with.Static Analysis techniques help us to identify some metrics over the application code base
07 Non linear paths from Application Code
The applications become complex as their code base increases. This has challenges for the testers to determine the nonlinear paths in the application.Most of the Static Analysis tools over the application code helps us to identify the cyclomatic complexity (nonlinear paths) at a method level. These might be helpful to validate those methods and to achieve good code coverage over the same.
06 Use Cyclomatic Complexity to determine the Risk and Test Scenarios
Cyclomatic Complexity (CC) is a software metric (mostly code based metric) used to the number of independent path executions in the application. Introduced by Thomas McCabe in 1976, it measures the number of linearly-independent paths through a program module. It helps the developers to determine the independent path executions and base line unit tests that they need to validate. Using this, the developers can assure that all the paths have been tested atleast once. It’s a great comfort for the developer and their respective managers.
05 Open Source Tools to test your Java Code
Open Source tools are being used aggressively and there are many tools that can help Java Applications to validate their code.
04 JavaNCSS – A source metric suite for Java
JavaNCSS is a command line utility which measures some standard source code metrics for the Java programming language. The metrics are collected globally, for each class and/or for each function.
03 KLOC – What does it mean to Software Testing
Lines of Code (LOC) is one of the software metric that is used by most of the people for Software Measurement. Thousand lines of code is treated as KLOC. This metric helps us in knowing the size and complexity of the Software Application. Click here for more details on KLOC. This info is from wikipedia
02 Applying Static Analysis for Software Testing
In this post, I will be sharing my views on Static Analysis and how the same is useful for Software Testing. Using Static Analysis in Testing will also be called as Static Testing.
01 Finding Bugs in Java Programs with just one mouse click
Come across this cool video about Using Static Analysis For Software Defect Detection on Google Tech Talks. William Pugh talk about how can we use Static Analysis for defect detection and his tool FindBugs which is Static Analysis tool for Java Applications.
00 Static Analysis for Code Quality
Static Analysis is the technique used to analyze the software without executing the same. It helps to look at issues that are there with in the Source Code even before it gets executed. Find some reading on Static Code Analysis here from Wikipedia.
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