Goanna Static Analysis by Red Lizard Software

I used to be a keen windsurfer and once attended a training camp/holiday in Greece. We covered advanced maneuvers such as 360’s, forward rolls and duck gybes etc. The instructor always said, “Doesn’t matter if you pull it off, just so long as it looks good!”

The reason for this story is that at Red Lizards we have a mantra of “Bringing higher quality software to market faster”, and so the flip side of this coin is that we can’t ship a release until it is of sufficiently high quality. Double edged sword perhaps, yet this is the business we chose.

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The visual studio version of Goanna is almost ready:

This is the plugin being run over one of the PLT Scheme projects, mzscheme. A major part of our testing routine is using Goanna on open source projects.

We will have a trial version of our Visual Studio plugin for you soon!

The other day we met with a new prospective alpha partner for our upcoming MSVS release (Visual Studio support is scheduled for July 2009). This customer has a lot of smarter people creating impressive code bases to challenging requirements.

Having presented how Goanna is different in that we fit within the IDE, as opposed to sitting with/behind the central build, I asked the question as to when and how they run peer reviews.

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