When I was a kid, I found it fun to create “art” using a Paint by Numbers kit. Maybe you also played with it as well. Paint by numbers was a way to take a person with minimal skill (that would be me) and have them follow some basic steps to “create” a recognizable painting. …
Hi. My name is Charlie and I am an Engineer. I have been an Engineer all of my life. I have written thousands of lines of code in dozens of languages, some of which you have never heard of. I have worked with and managed teams of engineers from around the world. Some were just …
Sometimes simple errors may bubble up and produce something big. A classic example of this is rounding off with floor() or ceil() methods in an arithmetic operation too early. In that case the off-by-one error propagates and may lead to a significant deviation. While preparing this year’s tax return a few days ago (I am …
Ashish Kakran of Thomvest ventures writes about the emerging DevOps trends in a recent article published in the DevOps blog space. https://devops.com/devops-trends-to-watch-in-2021/ Ashish identifies several emerging trends in DevOps practices. We, at OpenRefactory, follow the commentaries from the thought leaders and gauge how our Intelligent Code Repair (iCR) solves the …
KeePass is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager that allows users to manage their passwords across multiple accounts and applications in a secure way. It supports a password database that is locked with a single master key. KeePassDroid is a port of this password manager for Android. It is a popular password …
In this blog series, we will share some findings from running iCR on open source code. We ran iCR on Jenkins version jenkins-2.264 with the last commit hash of 4ff3e8d. This version had 1634 Java files and about 285 KLoC. We will be giving examples of some bugs that iCR identified. Null Pointer Dereference: …
This is an opinion piece written by Charlie Bedard, COO of OpenRefactory. Charlie reflects on SAST practices based on his years of experience. Programing languages are the “carpenter’s tools” for software developers. Just like a good carpenter would not use a chisel as a screwdriver (OK, I have done that in an “emergency”), it is …
In the nascent years of the computer industry some six decades ago, there were only a handful of machines globally and the machines took up huge rooms and consumed lots of power. Software was a brand-new discipline and it took very specialized training and patience to program the machines. Today, less than one average lifetime …
OpenRefactory reports that it has performed an analysis of a popular Open Source project: FRRouting. FR Routing is a member of the Linux Foundation. From the FR Routing Website (https://frrouting.org): “FRRouting (FRR) is an IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms which includes protocol daemons for BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, and RIP. …
A major advancement for OpenRefactory is our Memo of Understanding with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The MoU creates an opportunity for OpenRefactory to partner with TCS who helps to bring our technology to the very large base of TCS’s customers. The MoU relationship was made possible thanks to the introduction of OpenRefactory to TCS by …