comparison - Are there tools to determine code similarity?
1 This article on wikipedia on the subject also includes links to several tools that can be used to find similar or duplicate code. We have an internal tool for this, so I'm not familiar with the …
Difference Between Linter, Sanitizer and Static Analysis Tools
Mar 18, 2018 · I've recently been looking at C++ static analysis tools. One thing that confuses me is the terminology used with these tools: Some tools are simply called "static analysis tools" …
comparison - How to effectively compare the (almost) same code …
Basically, this makes a merging tool like meld find many differences because the spacing in one of the projects has changed. Is there another way to compare two projects which are similar, …
Does it make sense to keep two different versions of code?
Jan 14, 2025 · The backward compatibility can be implemented in multiple ways and one of the ways is indeed to keep both old and new versions forever in the live code and maintain both …
comparison - Get a hash from XML - Software Engineering Stack …
May 7, 2024 · This is an interesting question. Canonical XML, on it surface, seems like it should eliminate inconsistencies, like white-space differences. Have you tried opening the two XML …
How to Ignore Bracketing Style in Code Comparison / Diff
Mar 26, 2014 · How to ignore bracketing styles when doing code comparisons or diffs? We have several formats of bracketing and I would like: function foo(){ } to be considered the same as …
version control - Is there any way of applying a code formatter to …
May 28, 2021 · There is no way around the second problem, but anyone spelunking through history of code will in any case have to have a workflow to step past uninteresting commits …
code reviews - How can I display a diff result in a single file or ...
I'm reviewing my peer's code. I use SourceGear DiffMerge as my diff program, on a Windows environment. While I'm using the diff program, I can clearly see the code changes, etc. Is it …
code quality - Estimated errors in implementation comparison
I've run a code analysis tool called plato that generates a source analysis report that includes metrics line total/average lines of code, maintainability and estimated errors in an effort to …
Four-way XML comparison in C# - Software Engineering Stack …
This is basic two-way comparison - which is available for .NET. As you see, you could compare these two results and get a useful diff (some namespace changes would need to be made so …