The expectation of people with regard to software quality is profoundly unrealistic. It could be because they depend so much on software that anything less than perfect is ‘un-acceptable’.
Bugs in C# projects
Searching for bugs in Mono: there are hundreds of them!
It’s very interesting to check large projects. As a rule, we do manage to find unusual and peculiar errors, and tell people about them. Also, it’s a great way to test our analyzer and improve all its different aspects. I’ve long been waiting to check ‘Mono’; and finally, I got the opportunity. I should say that this check really proved its worth as I was able to find a lot of entertaining things. This article is about the bugs we found, and several nuances which arose during the check.
Checking the Source Code of MSBuild
As we continue developing PVS-Studio static code analyzer, we often have to check large open-source projects by renowned developers. The fact that even such projects contain a certain amount of bugs adds even more sense and weight to our work. Unfortunately, everybody makes mistakes. No matter how carefully you control your code’s quality, there is just no way to avoid “human error”. As long as software is developed by humans, analysis tools like PVS-Studio will remain relevant and needed. Today, we are going to discuss errors found in the source code of MSBuild, which is, unfortunately, not perfect either.
Source code of WPF samples by Microsoft got checked
Upon Windows Vista release, the company introduced a new subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications – Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This graphic subsystem is a part of the .NET Framework, starting with version 3.0. It uses XAML markup language. Now, it has almost replaced the outdated WinForms. In our humble opinion, the main disadvantage of WinForms, was the fact that it was doing all the rendering on the CPU. WPF approached this in a more sensible way, and let DirectX do the rendering of the components. Now WPF allows the making of universal interfaces for three platforms at once (PC, XBOXOne, Winphone), and has practically ousted WinForms.
Checking Xamarin.Forms
You probably already know that the Microsoft Corporation bought the Xamarin Company. Even though Microsoft has started gradually opening the source code of some of its products, the Xamarin.Forms code was a big surprise. We couldn’t give it the go-by, and decided to check the code using a static code analyzer.
Errors in Xenko Game Engine
Open-source engines in C++ are much more common than those written in C#. But there are exceptions: Xenko is one such engine, open-source and written in C#. In this article, you will learn about interesting issues we managed to find in this project.
