By: Joseph Purcell, Digital Bridge Solutions

If you aren’t using automated static analysis then time is being wasted during code review. As the art of programming has evolved, patterns have emerged that can describe code in quantitative terms. Static analysis is the task of looking for those patterns in code, whether they are for code style, complexity, or security vulnerabilities.

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