The software industry has a cyclic love-hate relationship with code metrics. At times, metrics appear to be quite helpful and at other times, doubt regarding their efficacy casts a short-lived shadow, ...

Developers working on code need to consistently check their code for quality and security long before it gets deployed to production environments. Sonar’s new SonarQube offerings provide teams with a ...

GitHub’s claim that its Copilot AI generates superior-quality code has come under scrutiny, with Romanian software developer Dan Cîmpianu leading the charge against its statistical validity. The tech ...

So-called "best practices" sometimes appear burdensome to programmers. Corporate metric and coding standards may have their place, some may grant, but the overhead and documentation with such systems ...

Take advantage of the powerful static code analysis tool to identify and understand issues in your .Net application’s code Assessing the quality of an application’s code is often a subjective process.

Recently, I was asked to maintain some old code and test some new code. Both tasks required that I understand the code with which I was working. Most of the time, these jobs are non-trivial due to the ...