Microsoft is not the only company to go open source recently - other companies are following this trend too. This brings us, the developers of PVS-Studio, another wonderful opportunity to...

If you consider yourself a good programmer or at least you think your level is above average, I do not recommend reading this article. This article is meant for the managers of software p...

Spreading the word about PVS-Studio static analyzer, we usually write articles for programmers. However, some things are seen by programmers quite one-sided. That is why there are project...

Articles by authors from PVS-Studio - developers of the C, C++, C#, and Java static analyzer. Guest articles that we translated. In our blog, you can learn more about static analysis, static analysis tools, and advantages of using a static analyzer.

I don't like it when people use artificial code examples to evaluate the diagnostic capabilities of static code analyzers. There is one particular example I'm going to discuss to explain ...

In my previous article I wrote that I don't like the approach of evaluating the efficiency of static analyzers with the help of synthetic tests. In that article, I give the example of a c...

In November 2016, we posted an article about the development and use of the PVS-Studio plugin for SonarQube. We received great feedback from our customers and interested users who request...

Perhaps, readers remember my article titled "Last line effect". It describes a pattern I've once noticed: in most cases programmers make an error in the last line of similar text blocks. ...

Starting with the version 6.27, the PVS-Studio static code analyzer can classify its warnings according to MISRA C and MISRA C++ standards. Due to support of these standards it has become...

SonarQube is an open source platform, designed for continuous analysis and measurement of code quality. More than a year PVS-Studio has a plugin for the integrating the results of the wor...

Over the course of its history, humanity has been making enormous efforts to study the night sky. By now, we have mapped almost the entire area of it. We have observed hundreds of thousan...

A vulnerability in terms of computer security, is a flaw in the system allowing someone to violate the integrity, or deliberately cause a malfunction, of the program. Practice shows that ...

It so happened that during some period of time I was discussing on the Internet, one would think, different topics: free alternatives of Matlab for universities and students, and finding ...

We regularly get requests and recommendations concerning the improvements of the analyzer abilities. We put most of the proposals on our Todo-list and implement eventually. We are really ...

This is a classic article, where we share our experience of checking an open-source project called LibrePCB with PVS-Studio. What makes it special, though, is the fact that the analysis w...

Unreal Engine continues to develop as new code is added and previously written code is changed. What is the inevitable consequence of ongoing development in a project? The emergence of ne...

This article will demonstrate that during the development of large projects static analysis is not just a useful, but a completely necessary part of the development process. This article is…

The linking concept of today's article differs from usual. This time it is not one project, the source code of which was analyzed, but a number of warnings related to one and the same dia...

On the New 2019 year's eve, a PVS-Studio team decided to make a nice gift for all contributors of open-source projects hosted on GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. They are given free usage of ...