Posts made in February, 2012

A quick glimpse at Optimyth’s static analysis engine

Posted by Eduardo Aguado on Feb 29, 2012 in Static code analysis | 0 comments

When QA managers want to measure the quality of their code they start looking for open source tools for static analysis. They want to perform analysis on their projects and get an indicator of how badly or well they are developed in order to make the right decisions. Of course this is not enough, as static analysis is just one small part of the QA process. Anyway, this is not the topic right now  (we will discuss this and other topics in further articles). As for now, we will focus on Optimyth’s most powerful static analysis engine . checKing static analysis engine.

Optimyth presents CQM: checKing Quality Model

Posted by Juan Pablo Tejela on Feb 29, 2012 in Quality metrics, Quality model | 0 comments

Software quality is the bread and butter of Optimyth Software. All our products have the common goal of helping our customers measure and improve the quality of their software.

Over the years we have built and evolved our products with the customer always in mind. In fact we are proud to say that every single company in our customer base has improved our products in one way or another.

When you want to measure quality you need a “measuring tape”.  We have learnt that it’s not that simple to choose one, though. This is where our customers have contributed a great deal and as result we have come up with the “universal measuring tape”: the checKing Quality Model or CQM for short. read on and learn what it is.

Technical debt can be interest rate free… but never risk free

Posted by Javier Salado on Feb 24, 2012 in Economics, From the editor, Technical debt | 0 comments

In my last post, If the interest rate is 0%, do you want to pay back your debt?, I blathered on technical debt and how it can be (under some circumstances) interest rate free.

Robert Treat wrote an interesting article commenting on it, Intrest free (technical) debt is risky

He is right, you have to take your exposure to risk into account. Risk is an intrinsic characteristic of any kind of debt. And is an important one, entire European countries’ economies are struggling because of the risk exposure of their debt (financial this time).

Gaining competitiveness through quality

Posted by Oscar Martínez on Feb 16, 2012 in Economics, Software quality | 1 comment

In today’s predominant crisis across the Western economies, we often hear a variety of proposals to get us out of this mess we find ourselves into. We hear suggestions such as fiscal adjustments; cost reductions; monetary expansions and so forth and so on. Some of these ideas are rather controversial and even biased depending on who suggests them. What everyone seems to agree is that the Western economy must win on competitiveness through productivity and quality.

Parsing source code. An unsolvable problem?

Posted by Eduardo Aguado on Feb 10, 2012 in Static code analysis | 0 comments

Repeat after me until it comes true: parsing source code is an already solved problem. Yes, unfortunately it is not true. Parsing code is still far from being a straightforward activity in the 21^st century. Shame on us.

I am pretty sure that you can enumerate a series of parser generators and regular expression libraries that saved the day for many of you in the past, but I am convinced that it is not enough at all.