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Static Analysis at GitHub: An experience report.

The article discusses computer code-navigation and hosting for the website github.com, operated by the firm GitHub, particularly focusing upon the static analysis stage that enables the extraction of name-binding information from source code. It examines the core ideas of the GitHub Semantic Code te...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 44 - 52
Main Authors: CLEM, TIMOTHY, THOMSON, PATRICK
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2022
Subjects:
Computer programming
Github Inc.
Semantic computing
Computer programmers
Human-computer interaction
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses computer code-navigation and hosting for the website github.com, operated by the firm GitHub, particularly focusing upon the static analysis stage that enables the extraction of name-binding information from source code. It examines the core ideas of the GitHub Semantic Code team including zero configuration, incrementality, and human partnering. The article also discusses the Ruby on Rails application codebase.