STARCANADA 2013: Quantifying the Value of Static Analysis

During the past ten years, static analysis tools have become a vital part of software development for many organizations. However, the question arises, “Can we quantify the benefits of static analysis?” William Oliver presents the results of a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study that first measured the cost of finding software defects using formal testing on a system without static analysis; then, they integrated a static analysis tool into the process and, over a period of time, recalculated the cost of finding software defects. Join William as he shares the results of their study and discusses the value and benefits of static testing. Learn how commercial and open source analysis tools can perform sophisticated source code analysis over large code bases. Take back proof that employing static analysis can not only reduce the time and cost of finding defects and their subsequent debugging but ultimately can reduce the number of defects making their way into your releases.