Replacing Humans with Software Inspectors

An anonymous reader writes "What if you were able to perform a portion of your code reviews automatically? In this first article of the new series 'Automation for the People', development automation expert Paul Duvall begins with a look at automated inspectors like CheckStyle, JavaNCSS, and CPD. The piece examines how these tools enhance the development process and when you should use them." From the article: "Every time a team member commits modifications to a version control repository, the code has changed. But how did it change? Was the modified code the victim of a copy-and-paste job? Did the complexity increase? The only way to know is to run a software inspector at every check-in. Moreover, receiving feedback on each of the risks discussed thus far on a continuous basis is one sure-fire way to keep a code base's health in check automatically!"

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Re:Bad Robots Work Too Hard

[Doc Ruby]

Anonymous jackass Coward, you should have spent that minute reading the line in my post that said

"By which I mean factoring common code into its own scope, then pasting a reference to it."

Sometimes known as "object oriented programming". Since I helped Apple Computer move from their Pascal toolbox to C++ over a decade ago, I'd say that I know more about OOP than you'll ever know about anything.