New support for analysis of Web applications

Cast AIP 8.0 adds extensive support for analysis of Web applications and Web mobile frameworks. HTML5/Javascript files are analyzed together the world’s most used frameworks AngularJS, jQuery and Node.js.

Together with support for web-service REST APIs support for JEE (Spring MVC, JAX-RS) and .Net applications, this automatically creates transactions which enables system-level verification from web frontends to server backends as well as supporting function point counting.

A number of quality rules are supported in line with the OMG and CISQ standards with a strong focus on system-level rules to find critical violations in the use of the frameworks. For example avoid expensive call of web services from the front-end. The support for web applications is delivered as Extensions (see this article for more info on extensions : https://help.castsoftware.com/hc/en-us/articles/217251028)