SourceAudit – Source code analyzer for developers

SourceAudit is a software tool designed especially for developers to help them understand, improve, and maintain their code by using sophisticated static analysis methods and technologies.

SourceAudit offers a wide selection of features and aids in-depth analysis of your code by
Calculating:

• source code metrics
  Software measurement is an essential element of management; there is little chance of controlling what we cannot measure. Software metrics are measures of some property of a piece of software, its source code or its specification. There are several aspects of measuring software attributes…
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Checking for:

• code duplications
  It is a common practice to reuse source code by simply copying and pasting its parts. Although this approach can reduce software development time, the price in the long-term must be paid in the form of increased maintainability costs. One of the primary concerns is that if the original code segment needs to be corrected, all the copied parts need to be checked and changed accordingly as well.
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• so called "bad code smells"
  In computer programming, bad code smell is a symptom in the source code that possibly indicates a deeper problem, which can lead to a malfunctioning software.
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• bugs, coding problems, bad practices and coding style
  Best practices provide guidelines for writing good, fast, maintainable, secure code. FrontEndART's products are capable of checking whether these best practices are being adhered to or not by developers. Besides these best practices, the tools can detect serious programming errors, which are either caused by unawareness or inadvertence of the developers. Read more >>

SourceAudit discovers coding issues, bad practices and style inconsistencies during the development phase, by performing a so called “static testing” (static analysis), which is much cheaper than conventional testing. By discovering coding problems in the early phase of development, unnecessary iterations of testing can be avoided.

The latest available release is FrontEndART SourceAudit 1.3. For obtaining the release binaries please contact us through any of the provided contacts or download the evaluation software.

Visual Studio integration of SourceAudit	Metrics of the source code shown in Visual Studio by SourceAudit
Coding problem notification (usage of clone classes) shown real-time in Visual Studio by SourceAudit

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