Archive
Michael MULLER
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Avoid using complex operands
This code insight sanctions data accesses in operands having a too high level of indirection. The level of indirection is determined by the path…
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Release Notes – Highlight May 2019
We’re very proud to announce the next release of CAST Highlight. This version adds Cloud readiness assessment for TypeScript & JavaScript, discovery of transitive…
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Avoid having too many unused variables
Having too many variables that are unused somewhere in your software can make the software consume more memory than it should as the resource…
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Good practices when defining the scope of a code scan
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]In this post, we have compiled a few good practices to keep in mind when scanning a code base with CAST Highlight in…
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Software Composition in Highlight: How Open Source component detection works
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]CAST consolidates a unique database made of 94M+ Open Source components and 9B+ file fingerprints. This article details the concept and steps in…
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How OSS licenses are mined and detected in Highlight’s Software Composition Analysis feature
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]CAST has developed unique algorithms to mine and detect licenses from Open Source components to let you get a (more accurate) sense of…
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Release Notes – Highlight February 2019
We’re very proud to announce the next release of CAST Highlight which will be available very soon. This version adds customization capabilities for third-party…
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How to detect apps using Oracle’s JDK 1.8 (and others) at the portfolio level
As you probably already know, Oracle announced a major change of their release and support rules for Java. This article is not meant to…
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What is a line of code and how Highlight counts them
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Sometimes, this question is raised by new users: how CAST Highlight counts lines of code compared to classic static code analysis tools and…
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Open Source License Risk Profiles
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Using Open Source components makes your development team deliver software faster, but also comes with potential legal risks on license types that these…