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by ainar-g 2430 days ago
See, that's another thing that a lot of people don't understand about static analysis. It's not just there to find bugs in existing code, it's there to find bugs as you write or edit the code! Of course it won't find a lot in a tested code base. It's tested after all. But it immensely shortens debug time as you develop, and thus reduces testing time as well.