Static code analysis tools can help developers eliminate numbers of bugs as early as at the coding stage. With their help you can, for example, quickly catch and fix any typos. Well, some programmers are sincerely sure they never make typos and silly mistakes. But they are wrong; everyone makes mistakes. This article is a good evidence of that. Typos can be found even in high-quality and well tested projects such as Qt.
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