What Is a Static Code Analysis?
Static code analysis or Source code analysis is a method performed on the ‘static’ (non-running) source code of the software with static code analysis tools that attempt to highlight potential vulnerabilities. Static code analyzers check source code for specific vulnerabilities as well as for compliance with various coding standards.
Why Use Static Analysis?
- Get code insights before execution
- Executes quickly compared with dynamic analysis
- Code quality maintenance can be automated
- Search for bugs can be automated at early stages (although not all)
- Finding security problems can be automated at an early stage
- You already use static analyzers if you use any IDE that already has static analyzers (like Pycharm uses pep8).
Now that we are aware of static code analysis, we must know the tools that are already leading the market. Without further ado, let's have a look at the tools that are popular for static code analysis: