145: Managing Static Code Analysis with Tiago Ruivo

Salesforce Developer Podcast

Tiago Ruivo is a Senior Regional Success Architect here at Salesforce. He started his career in computer science and was introduced to Salesforce through pure luck as a customer. Eventually, he made the jump over to working for Salesforce and, over time, progressed from being a junior developer to holding his current role.

Today, Tiago and I are talking about one of my favorite subjects: static code analysis. Throughout the episode, Diego walks us through how to run it, how to manage it, and how to operate it with your teams.

Show Highlights:

• More about Tiago’s background and career history.
• How he describes his current role.
• What static code analysis is and where it falls in the development cycle.
• What the term “shift left” means.
• What static code analysis is good at catching and what it’s not good at catching.
• The tools that make up static code analysis.
• The first steps to take when you run code analysis.
• Best practices for making your own set of rules with static code analysis.
• Where you can learn more about all of this.

Links:

• Tiago on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagoruivo/
• PMD: https://pmd.github.io/
• ES-lint: https://eslint.org/
• SFDX Scanner: https://forcedotcom.github.io/sfdx-scanner/