ApplicationInspector
A source code analyzer that identifies features and characteristics in software components using static analysis and a JSON rules engine.
What is ApplicationInspector?
Microsoft Application Inspector is a source code analyzer that uses static analysis and a JSON rules engine to identify features and characteristics in software components. It helps developers and security teams quickly understand what a codebase does by detecting patterns like cryptography usage, cloud APIs, and frameworks without making quality judgments. The tool is designed to reduce the time needed to evaluate open-source or third-party components by examining source code directly.
Security engineers, developers, and compliance teams who need to audit software components for feature presence, track changes between versions, or verify security-related characteristics in build pipelines.
Unlike traditional static analysis tools that focus on finding bugs, Application Inspector provides objective feature detection to help users understand component capabilities and security implications. Its extensive rule set, multi-language support, and flexible output formats make it ideal for automating software composition analysis and compliance checks.
Overview
A source code analyzer built for surfacing features of interest and other characteristics to answer the question 'What's in the code?' quickly using static analysis with a json based rules engine. Ideal for scanning components before use or detecting feature level changes.
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