Static Analysis
If you like applying Static Analysis, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Code Review Bootcamp for an Early-Stage Mobile Team
Read the team's last 100 merged PRs (export provided) and tag the 10 worst review threads (rubber-stamp, bikeshed, missing context). Draft a 4-page code-review guideline coverin…
- Code Review
- Team Coaching
- Process Design
Software Construction - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Symbolic-Execution Test-Generation Pipeline for a Date-Time Library
Design a generation pipeline that turns the public parsing and arithmetic surface of the supplied library module into branch-covering test inputs using a symbolic-execution engi…
- Symbolic Execution
- Klee
- Test Generation
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Secure-Coding Linter Ruleset for a Backend Team
Using the findings log, study the twelve documented security-review findings and confirm the three repeat patterns. Then build a custom linter ruleset — choose Semgrep or custom…
- Secure Coding
- Static Analysis
- Semgrep
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Detect Use-After-Free with Pointer Analysis in a C++ Codebase
Build the codebase with compilation database (compile_commands.json). Write a custom Clang static-analyzer checker (or extend an existing one) that flags resource-handle uses af…
- Pointer Analysis
- Static Analysis
- Use After Free
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Rate and Reduce Technical Debt in a Telecom OSS Codebase
Design a SQALE-based technical-debt rating and improvement proposal for Lumera Telekom's OSS. Using only the static-analysis findings export, the module inventory and rating gri…
- Sqale Method
- Technical Debt
- Code Quality
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Technical Debt Register for a Legacy Banking Monolith
Run 8 structured 45-minute engineer interviews (template provided) capturing one debt item per pain point with reproducible evidence. Run SonarQube against the monolith for a qu…
- Technical Debt
- Debt Quadrant
- Code Quality
Technical Debt Management - DesignSeniorNew
Migrate a 600K-LOC Monolith to a Modular Monolith
Run static dependency analysis on the monolith (using Packwerk + custom Ruby AST scripts, both available) to surface the current implicit modules and the worst cross-module depe…
- Large Scale Codebases
- Modular Monolith
- Static Analysis
Advanced Software Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Find the Dead Code Hiding in a Python Monorepo
Build a dataflow- and call-graph-based dead-code detector in Python (using libcst, or the standard ast module together with jedi) and prove it on the materials provided. Run it …
- Dataflow Analysis
- Ast
- Call Graph
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a CodeQL Query Pack to Catch Logging of Personal Data
Using the provided personal-data source and logging-sink specification, write CodeQL data-flow queries for Java and Python that detect personal data travelling from a source (re…
- Static Analysis
- Codeql
- Data Flow Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Code-Smell Triage Workshop for a Hiring-Platform Backend
Run static analysis (SonarQube + a custom ruleset for domain-specific smells) on the four most-touched services. Score each smell on the 22-item Fowler catalog by occurrence cou…
- Code Smells
- Static Analysis
- Refactoring Prioritization
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Semantic Configuration Validator Using Abstract Interpretation
Using the configuration schema reference, the three incident post-mortems, and the 200-configuration validation set provided, design an abstract domain that captures relations b…
- Abstract Interpretation
- Static Analysis
- Rust Programming
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Case File: Smart-Pointer Refactor of a Game-Engine Module
Work only from the four supplied items: the representative entity-component-system module slice, the before-refactor heaptrack leak readout, the de-identified incident log, and …
- Cpp Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
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