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Facing the Software Quality Challenge: The Results of a New IDC Survey: Development organizations today are faced with a number of significant challenges. They must coordinate disparate code sources, overcome code complexity, keep pace with rapid change, enforce compliance with mandatory processes, and work within budgetary constraints to name just a few. So, how are these organizations faring? Are developers successfully dealing...; Tags: Software, Survey, Coverity, International Data Corp., Software Quality, Tools & Techniques, Management; Webcasts 2008-06-19
The Next Generation of Static Analysis: Boolean Satisfiability and Path Simulation - A Perfect Match: Static analysis offers the ability to find bugs before software is run, improving code quality and dramatically accelerating the availability of new applications. But excessive false-positive results are the main reason why many source code analysis products quickly become shelfware after a few uses. Now, a groundbreaking new use of...; Tags: Coverity, Analysis; White papers 2008-02-01
Open-source security moves to next step: Open-source security moves to next stepSweet!!At least we're getting a return on our tax dollar somewhere!! :)Not negative infoExternal people find the bugs, the open source community or the people who found the bug takes little time to fix them. I see nothing negative about that.Compare that with most...; Tags: security, open source, Coverity, Open-source security move, security move, tool; Discussion threads 2008-01-11
Can government-funded open source make Coverity obsolete?: Can government-funded open source make Coverity obsolete?As it should beIf the development is paid by the general population via taxes and the government, then it should be "Open Source" and public domain. If the developers of proprietary software want to use it - Hey, they pay taxes too. ...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Coverity, open source; Discussion threads 2008-01-11
Open source projects get hardened: The Dept. of Homeland Security's Open Source Hardening Project has turned up an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in the most popular open source software projects, PC World reports. OSHP, run by Stanford and Coverity, found significant problems with 180 open source projects it...; Tags: Project, Coverity, Scanners, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-10

Can government-funded open source make Coverity obsolete?: Some government-funded open source offers an alternative bug-fixing approach to that used by Coverity, whom we wrote about yesterday. The NIST, working with researchers at UT-Arlington, plan to release open source code for what they call automated "combinatorial" testing. While Coverity's software tests lines...; Tags: Coverity, NIST, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-10
Coverity work spun backward: Coverity work spun backwardAs always follow the money"An ability to acknowledge flaws is a strength of open source, yet too many in the computer media are portraying it as a weakness."Journalists don't exist anymore, they're in sales support.I think Coverity does inspect commercial software... they just sign NDA's with the...; Tags: Web browsers, RIM BlackBerry, Coverity, Firebird, ICU; Discussion threads 2008-01-09
Coverity work spun backward: Coverity is doing what we in the South call the Lord's Work, checking major open source code for common problems, helping make things more secure. I just wish headline writers would understand this is a good thing. It's a good thing for open source. ...; Tags: Difference, Coverity, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-09
Controlling Software Complexity: The Business Case for Static Source Code Analysis: Because of the increasing role software plays in almost every facet of our lives and businesses, developers are under constant pressure to perform. They are challenged to deliver increasingly advanced applications on stringent timetables. Compound this with the growing complexity of applications themselves, add distributed or outsourced development teams, and...; Tags: Business Case, Software, Complexity, Coverity, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Opera fixes four flaws: Opera fixes four flawsSCORE !More Coverity defect reports for OS/X. But wait, doesn't this third party defect affect all of the OSes, not just OS/X? Yes of course, but because of the different reporting rules for Windows and OS/X, this defect will never be listed by Coverity for...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, OS/X, Coverity, Opera Software; Discussion threads 2007-12-24
Coverity lets you watch what your code does: When engineers or Mythbusters want to test a concept they first build a small scale model.Now you can do the same thing with your code. The new version of its Prevent SQS builds models of what the program you're written is doing so you can quickly find flaws.CTO Ben Chelf...; Tags: Development, General, Strategy, support; Blog posts 2007-05-01
How about a Palamida for clean code?: How about a Palamida for clean code?Software Risk Management a RealityThanks so much for the mention of Palamida's new Vulnerability Reporting Solution. It's great that you included Coverity, because the VRS is a perfect complement for their existing solutions. In fact, we feel that everyone should be using a vulnerability...; Tags: Palamida, Coverity; Discussion threads 2007-04-23
Static vs. Dynamic Source Code Analysis: Finding the Right 'Bug Spray': In this on-demand Webcast, Coverity CTO Ben Chelf reviews the relative merits of static and dynamic source code analysis tools, and the types of defects which can be found at compile time vs. at run time. Coverity Prevent represents the latest innovation in static analysis with complete path coverage...; Tags: Coverity, Analysis, Coverity Prevent; Webcasts 2007-02-08
Coverity was 7th most-read story at open source blog: A piece I did way back in January about Coverity was the 7th most popular item on this blog in 2006. The item described a Homeland Security grant of $1.25 million aimed at making Web sites more secure.Specifically, Coverity was to test open source code for bugs that criminals might...; Tags: Coverity, Security, Development, General; Blog posts 2006-12-14
Meeting the software development challenge with static source code analysis: This white paper highlights key business and technology issues facing large software development teams and discusses how Coverity's groundbreaking static source code analysis technology enables them to detect and fix critical defects and security vulnerabilities early in the development process.; Tags: Software, Coverity, Analysis, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management; White papers 2006-11-01
Most open source software is better: Thats one honest way you can spin a Business Week column, published Friday, written by Coverity CTO Benjamin Chelf.Thats now how Business Week spun it, however. "Insecurity in Open Source" is their headline.The story is that Coverity ran 50 open source projects through its bug-checking system, as well as products...; Tags: proprietary product, Coverity, open source; Blog posts 2006-10-09
Open-source hunt digs up more flaws: Open-source hunt digs up more flawsgive it a rest dudehonestly you must sit there and refresh IE every few seconds waiting for the next story that you feel like putting your 1 cent into. again put the pipe down and open the door. there is a whole world waiting if...; Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Coverity, flaw, Linux, defect, government, distro, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-05-03
LAMP lights the way in open-source security: LAMP lights the way in open-source securityGuess Uncle Bitty's gotta go back to the drawing tableShucks Bitmeister, when will your shilling finally STICK?.. ;-)Less than 1 bug per 1,000 lines...that's really saying something about open source. I'd like to see a similar security analysis of MS' IIS and .NET and...; Tags: open source, Amanda, Coverity, open-source security; Discussion threads 2006-03-06
Open source, the milspec version: Seeing as how the open source origins of the Internet were first wrought by the Defense Dept., it seems poetic justice (if that's the phrase) that the Dept. of Homeland Security is now funding the "hardening" of critical open source software, News.com reports. Through its Science and...; Tags: open-source software, software, Apache Software Foundation, Coverity; Blog posts 2006-01-12
The government is here to help open source: I have been wracking my suspicious mind all day, trying to see what's wrong with this.Maybe you can help.It seems the Department of Homeland Security is putting up almost $1.25 million in grant money to help make open source more secure. Most of the money is going to Stanford, but...; Tags: open source, Coverity; Blog posts 2006-01-12