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Re: How many folks are using static analysis tools...

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:37:18 -0700

Lloyd L Chambers wrote:
> In my relatively recent experience using my own code, several thousand
> warnings (mostly due to the introduction of generics, now fixed),
> resulted in 0 bugs found. But I try to write very clean code to begin
> with.

So you found it useful in that it found several thousand places where
you had used generics incorrectly? But you didn't consider them bugs
because the code would've "worked" even if you hadn't gotten rid of the
warnings?