Software quality tools include static and dynamic analysis tools. Static analysis tools input source code, perform syntactical and semantic analysis without executing the code, and present results to users. There is a large variety in the depth, thoroughness, and scope of static analysis tools that can be applied to artifacts including models, in addition to source code. (See the Software Construction, Software Testing, and Software Maintenance KAs for descriptions of dynamic analysis tools.)
Categories of static analysis tools include the following:
• Tools that facilitate and partially automate reviews and inspections of documents and code. These tools can route work to different participants in order to partially automate and control a review process. They allow users to enter defects found during inspections and reviews for later removal.
• Some tools help organizations perform software safety hazard analysis. These tools provide, e.g., automated support for failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA).
• Tools that support tracking of software problems provide for entry of anomalies discovered during software testing and subsequent analysis, disposition, and resolution. Some tools include support for workflow and for tracking the status of problem resolution.
• Tools that analyze data captured from software engineering environments and software test environments and produce visual displays of quantified data in the form of graphs, charts, and tables. These tools sometimes include the functionality to perform statistical analysis on data sets (for the purpose of discerning trends and making forecasts). Some of these tools provide defect and removal injection rates; defect densities; yields; distribution of defect injection and removal for each of the life cycle phases.
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Published on : 30-May-2018
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