@inproceedings{1803e82d1947424dbe68f3ad9a862106,
title = "On the benefit of automated static analysis for small and medium-sized software enterprises",
abstract = "Today's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the software industry are faced with major challenges. While having to work efficiently using limited resources they have to perform quality assurance on their code to avoid the risk of further effort for bug fixes or compensations. Automated static analysis can reduce this risk because it promises little effort for running an analysis. We report on our experience in analysing five projects from and with SMEs by three different static analysis techniques: code clone detection, bug pattern detection and architecture conformance analysis. We found that the effort that was needed to introduce those techniques was small (mostly below one person-hour), that we can detect diverse defects in production code and that the participating companies perceived the usefulness of the presented techniques as well as our analysis results high enough to include the techniques in their quality assurance.",
keywords = "architecture conformance analysis, bug pattern detection, code clone detection, small and medium-sized software enterprises, software quality, static analysis",
author = "Mario Gleirscher and Dmitriy Golubitskiy and Maximilian Irlbeck and Stefan Wagner",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-27213-4_3",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642272127",
series = "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "14--38",
booktitle = "Software Quality",
note = "4th International Conference on Software Quality Days, SWQD 2012 ; Conference date: 17-01-2012 Through 19-01-2012",
}