February 26-28, 2025
Montreal, Canada

Unlock the Full Potential of Static Analysis

Is a tool like PHPStan or Psalm part of your development process? If so, are you getting the most out of it?

This talk will look at how we can write our code in such a way as to get the most out of static analysis. We’ll look at some of the tools and extensions that plug into PHPStan to take the analysis to the next level.

Finally, we’ll see how static analysis allows us to refactor safely.

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Dave Liddament

Lamp Bristol

Dave is a director and developer at Lamp Bristol, a software consultancy. He’s been writing software commercially for over 22 years in many languages including C, Python, Java and PHP.

Dave is keen to pass on his knowledge. He speaks at conferences and user groups. He is an organiser of PHP-SW. He also runs a monthly workshop that covers topics including testing, CI and git.

He is also the author of an open source tool called SARB (static analysis results baseliner).

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