Todd Landry - Articles

Agile Development and Product Management

Agile Product Management and a lively talk about modern software development by Alistair Cockburn were the themes of the day. Read

By: Todd Landry | 07/11/2009 | Software

Static analysis for Ruby and Python

As a developer of static analysis tool for mainstream statically-typed languages, like C++ and Java, I was wondering for quite a while about how well static analysis applies to dynamically-typed languages, like Ruby and Python. Read

By: Todd Landry | 03/10/2009 | Software

FDA Software Verification and Validation

Main topic of today is using Agile in an FDA regulated medical device context. Sounds like an impossibility I know, but the folks from Agiletek and Abbott presented a very interesting case study on how they did it. Read

By: Todd Landry | 07/09/2009 | Software

Automated Source Code Analysis Whitepaper

Abstract Syntax Trees An abstract syntax tree, or AST for short, is simply a tree-structured representation of the source code as might be typically generated by the preliminary parsing stages of a compiler. Read

By: Todd Landry | 18/04/2009 | Software

Source Code Analysis in an Agile World

To keep pace with ever-increasing customer demands on software functionality and time-to-market expectations, software developers have had to evolve the way they develop code to be both faster and higher quality. As part of this trend, the Waterfall method of software development began to give way in the late 1990s to a more lightweight method of software development: Agile. Read

By: Todd Landry | 24/11/2008 | Software