Comments on: CAST – Software analysis to the extreme! – Part 1 http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/archives/cast-software-analysis-to-the-extreme All things Business Intelligence related. Read and participate! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Christopher Shortt http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/archives/cast-software-analysis-to-the-extreme/comment-page-1#comment-56 Christopher Shortt Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:02:58 +0000 http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/?p=180#comment-56 Hi Nick, The Cast guys in Switzerland were excellent to work with, and I believe it took some custom work by them to get it all done. I recommend calling them (ask for Nik Hirt), as I am sure they can male the code available to you if they haven't already added it to the Cast codebase. Chris Hi Nick,

The Cast guys in Switzerland were excellent to work with, and I believe it took some custom work by them to get it all done. I recommend calling them (ask for Nik Hirt), as I am sure they can male the code available to you if they haven’t already added it to the Cast codebase.

Chris

]]> By: nick horne http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/archives/cast-software-analysis-to-the-extreme/comment-page-1#comment-55 nick horne Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:42:32 +0000 http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/?p=180#comment-55 Hi Edwin, Very interesting article we have Cast installed at NHSBT in the UK and have used it in a limited sense for a while, however as all of our code is currently PL/SQL with lots of dynamic and application reference data (e.g. select statements) stored in tables we found CAST lacking - reading your report i am very pleased to note that CAST have upgraded their PL/SQL parser to include dynamic SQL and table based SQL this is something that we raised with CAST a while ago but they had no intention of resolving at the time, so as i said i am actually over the moon that this has now been resolved. Interestingly our codebase consists (now) of lots of oracle pl/sql code, 1 million lines and 10k's worth of Java/JSP/JEE code for which CAST is very good at analysing. I am now going to investigate upgrading our version of CAST from 6.2.0 to the latest and making good use of it. i will post another commnet when this is achieved. Regards Nick Hi Edwin,
Very interesting article we have Cast installed at NHSBT in the UK and have used it in a limited sense for a while, however as all of our code is currently PL/SQL with lots of dynamic and application reference data (e.g. select statements) stored in tables we found CAST lacking – reading your report i am very pleased to note that CAST have upgraded their PL/SQL parser to include dynamic SQL and table based SQL this is something that we raised with CAST a while ago but they had no intention of resolving at the time, so as i said i am actually over the moon that this has now been resolved.

Interestingly our codebase consists (now) of lots of oracle pl/sql code, 1 million lines and 10k’s worth of Java/JSP/JEE code for which CAST is very good at analysing. I am now going to investigate upgrading our version of CAST from 6.2.0 to the latest and making good use of it. i will post another commnet when this is achieved.
Regards Nick

]]> By: Christopher Shortt http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/archives/cast-software-analysis-to-the-extreme/comment-page-1#comment-24 Christopher Shortt Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:55:52 +0000 http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/?p=180#comment-24 Hi Edwin, I can't say that we did an exhaustive search for similar tools, but we didn't find anything that came close. I know that some ETL tools and some reporting tools have their own built in features for doing impact analysis and checks on the code they generate, but we didn't find anything that worked across so many tools and languages. If there is a competitor, please let me know and we will try to set up a review of that tool here at BI Review! Thanks, Chris Hi Edwin,

I can’t say that we did an exhaustive search for similar tools, but we didn’t find anything that came close. I know that some ETL tools and some reporting tools have their own built in features for doing impact analysis and checks on the code they generate, but we didn’t find anything that worked across so many tools and languages.

If there is a competitor, please let me know and we will try to set up a review of that tool here at BI Review!

Thanks,

Chris

]]> By: Edwin http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/archives/cast-software-analysis-to-the-extreme/comment-page-1#comment-23 Edwin Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:26:51 +0000 http://www.bireview.org/bireviewblogs/?p=180#comment-23 Hi Chris, the solution you describe here looks as powerful as the initial challenge seems common place. Before choosing CAST, did you evaluate alternatives? Thanks Edwin Hi Chris,
the solution you describe here looks as powerful as the initial challenge seems common place. Before choosing CAST, did you evaluate alternatives?

Thanks
Edwin

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