A Method for Continuous Code Quality Management Using Static Analysis

Author

Plösch, Reinhold ; Gruber, Harald ; Körner, Christian ; Saft, Matthias

Author_Institution

Inst. for Bus. Inf.-Software Eng., Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Linz, Austria

fYear

2010

fDate

Sept. 29 2010-Oct. 2 2010

Firstpage

370

Lastpage

375

Abstract

The quality of source code is a key factor for any software product and its continuous monitoring is an indispensable task for a software development project. We have developed a method for systematic assessing and improving the code quality of ongoing projects by using the results of various static code analysis tools. With different approaches for monitoring the quality (a trend-based one and a benchmarking-based one) and an according tool support we are able to manage the large amount of data that is generated by these static analyses. First experiences when applying the method with software projects in practice have shown the feasibility of our method.

Keywords

program diagnostics; project management; software quality; continuous code quality management; continuous monitoring; quality monitoring; software development project; software product; source code quality; static analysis; Analytical models; Benchmark testing; Monitoring; Programming; Software measurement; Software quality; Code quality; monitoring; static code analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2010 Seventh International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Porto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8539-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4241-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QUATIC.2010.68

Filename

5655663