Automating Code Review Tools – FxCop – Part III

The third post in this series on Automating Code Review tools will cover FxCop. FxCop is a coding standard and introspective analysis tool that looks at code using a ruleset and analyzes things such as code design (“should this method be static, internal, etc”) and performance (“change this method to static because it never uses [...]

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This post was written by dpx on January 1, 2009 Comments (0)

Automating Code Review Tools – Part I

The Connected Information Security Group blog at Microsoft recently published a couple of articles (part 1, part 2) about a tool recently released called CAT.NET. This is a static code analysis tool which reads a compiled programs code and looks for security problems such as null pointers, null references, and other problems specific to interpreted [...]

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This post was written by dpx on December 30, 2008 Comments (1)