Concise construal of static and dynamic metrics analysis

Abstract

Static analysis and dynamic analysis are two different ways of analyzing code and systems. Static analysis is performed in the early phase of the software development life cycle to better estimate software quality. Whereas, Dynamic analysis of programs is gaining more importance than static analysis nowadays as it covers the run time features of the programs. However, static analysis is used in the early phases of the software development life cycle and collects data from source code. In contrast, dynamic analysis is done during and after the coding phase and collects data from executable code. Dynamic analysis is more specific and incurs enormous run time overhead than static analysis [Gos14].