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Tutorial: How to build custom indicators using JIRA metrics and Highlight's API
In this tutorial post, we'll see how to use CAST Highlight's API to import external metrics and automatically consolidate a custom indicator. With a few steps and basic scripting skills, you'll be ...
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What is a line of code and how Highlight counts them
Sometimes, this question is raised by new users: how CAST Highlight counts lines of code compared to classic static code analysis tools and how to explain possible differences. While there is no tr...
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Transitive Dependencies: How much can you trust friends of your friends?
Friends of your friends are not necessarily your friends. In this post, we'll see why it is important to get visibility on dependencies of the Open Source components your apps are using and how to ...
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Technical Debt estimates and stats by technology
This documentation page is deprecated as the Technical Debt calculation methodology has been revisited. See this page instead. As detailed in the Indicator & Methodology deck, CAST Highlight lever...
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Release Notes - Highlight May 2019
We’re very proud to announce the next release of CAST Highlight. This version adds Cloud readiness assessment for TypeScript & JavaScript, discovery of transitive Open Source dependencies, improve...
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Good practices when defining the scope of a code scan
In this post, we have compiled a few good practices to keep in mind when scanning a code base with CAST Highlight in order to let you consume the most consistent software analytics possible, depend...
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Software Composition in Highlight: How Open Source component detection works
CAST consolidates a unique database made of 94M+ Open Source components and 9B+ file fingerprints. This article details the concept and steps in Highlight to automatically retrieve the true origin ...
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How OSS licenses are mined and detected in Highlight's Software Composition Analysis feature
CAST has developed unique algorithms to mine and detect licenses from Open Source components to let you get a (more accurate) sense of IP and legal impacts your software is exposed to. Here is how ...
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Release Notes - Highlight February 2019
We’re very proud to announce the next release of CAST Highlight which will be available very soon. This version adds customization capabilities for third-party license compliance as well as for da...
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How to detect apps using Oracle's JDK 1.8 (and others) at the portfolio level
As you probably already know, Oracle announced a major change of their release and support rules for Java. This article is not meant to explain how that’s going to work now, but long story short yo...