A few weeks ago I was contacted by Patrick Smacchia, NDepend’s lead developer, to evaluate NDepend and perhaps spread the word about this tool. Already using SonarQube in my daily work and being focused, as a freelance software consultant, on the quality of my work, which in turn affects its reliability and the satisfaction of my clients, I gladly accepted. So, what is NDepend? NDepend is a static code analysis tool that, with its wide range Read more…
This is by far the best explanation I’ve ever read about how the Stack and the Heap work: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-01-what-is-ownership.html, even if examples are aimed at the Rust language.
In my previous post, I argued that a system can be declared successfully tested when: all the regulations, requirements, specifications, or imposed conditions have been tested the product meets all the clearly stated needs of all the stakeholders. In some applications, especially those critical for safety and security, that’s not enough: it’s necessary to know also how much code has been tested, if there’s unreachable code around, how many conditions have been evaluated, etc. This Read more…
An interesting article written by Yegor Bugayenko, founder and CEO of Zerocracy, published in the last number of the Communications of the ACM, enters the neverending debate on how much testing is enough to ensure that a product can be safely commercialized. There has to be a certain point where testers stop looking for bugs. […] Finding bugs motivates testers, and they’ll keep looking for them. At some point, you have to launch the product. But Read more…