The problem here is if hardware and algorithms for static analysis are improving at linear pace, applications are growing at least exponentially (if we add-in 3rd party libraries).
I would say that the best economic value is being delivered if we consider some code fragments that are almost never covered by tests (any of them) - like error detector. Guys at pvs-studio brought in some pretty funny…
The problem here is if hardware and algorithms for static analysis are improving at linear pace, applications are growing at least exponentially (if we add-in 3rd party libraries).
I would say that the best economic value is being delivered if we consider some code fragments that are almost never covered by tests (any of them) - like error detector. Guys at pvs-studio brought in some pretty funny…