What is static program analysis? Static analysis provides testing against code bases and binaries without the execution of any code. IDEs do this too by highlighting areas of code they do not like. Ensuring code quality and identifying issues without running the code can save a huge amount of time for your team; we recommend…
Coming up with a name for a new product can be surprisingly difficult. It is also very important. If you get it right, a good name can become your brand. One of the hardest things is that lots of good names sound silly when you first say them. A classic example is Smart Bear. When…
What is a Cipher stream? Cipher streams act as streams except that they use a Cipher to process the data before it is passed to the underlying stream. This allows you to encrypt and decrypt data as you process it. One use of this is that you can encrypt data being saved to disc as…
During JavaOne this year I attended many interesting talks. One that I found particularly useful was regarding how we should make sure our test cases are up to scratch. You could write code for a cool new feature and be really proud of it, but if you don’t have adequate tests in place then this…
Here at IDRsolutions we are very excited about Java 9 and have written a series of articles explaining some of the main features. In our previous Java 9 series article we looked at modularity in Java 9. This time we will be looking at jlink. What is jlink? Jlink is Java’s new command line tool…
