Adventures in Reviewing Mountains of Code

Explore strategies for efficiently reviewing large codebases in this 33-minute OWASP Foundation conference talk. Discover the speaker's approach to analyzing 2.6 million lines of code on-site, including experiments conducted and unexpected challenges encountered. Learn about various techniques such as line-by-line reading, vulnerability identification, code parsing, abstract syntax trees, control flow graphs, and state space search algorithms. Gain insights into static code analysis, parallelization, native code handling, security metrics, and Unicode conversion. Consider the limitations and future directions for improving code review processes in large-scale software projects.