Checking the source code of PVS-Studio plugin with PVS-Studio analyzer

The developers from our team always get a question: "Have you checked PVS-Studio with your own PVS-Studio?". This time the readers will have a chance to learn about the details concerning this question. We have already written an article on the topic of testing PVS-Studio, but since that time at of things have changed.

PVS-Studio is a tool for bug detection in the source code of programs, written in C, C++ and C#. The plugin performs static code analysis and generates a report that helps a programmer find and fix the errors in the code. This product is targeted at developers who use Visual Studio environment.

"Yes, we had bugs in our product, we will give you an honest description of them together with the explanation. By the moment this article was written they had already been fixed" - say the developers and suggest reading about them in this article. Most of the errors are quite negligible and easy to fix, but we should understand that everybody makes mistakes. The analyzer is intended to solve this very task - finding bugs and typos in the source code.