Code Analysis

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. The examination of source code to understand structure, detect issues, infer dependencies, or measure properties such as complexity and quality. Code analysis may be static or dynamic, manual or automated, and is widely used in debugging, review, refactoring, and CI checks.

    In plain English: Examining source code to understand it or find issues.

    Example: "The refactor planning started with code analysis to identify the modules that actually owned business logic versus those that only forwarded calls."

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