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Software Build Analysis: Eliminate Production Problems to Accelerate Development

Software builds are a pulse of progress for any software development cycle. An agile, well-designed build system should seamlessly assemble software as it is being developed in the most efficient way possible. Today, too few organizations are able to bring this ideal to fruition. Many development projects are plagued with...

Tags: Software, Coverity, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-06-08

Meeting DO-178B Software Verification Guidelines With Coverity Integrity Center

Development organizations that create safety-critical airborne software systems must have the systems approved for use by the Federal Aviation Administration FAA. The FAA recognizes DO-178B as an acceptable means of compliance for securing the Federal Aviation Administration's FAA approval of software in airborne systems and equipment. Created by RTCA, Inc.,...

Tags: Software, FAA, Coverity, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-05-01

New Coverity products verify use of open source software

Coverity, Inc. announced two new tools for software development today: Coverity Build Analysis and the Coverity Integrity Center. These products are helpful for any type of development, but include features specially designed for companies using open source software in their commercial offerings. Coverity Build Analysis Coverity...

Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Coverity, Analysis, Coverity Build Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Software Architecture Analysis: Improve Software Longevity and Business Agility

To meet the demands of the business and the marketplace, development teams must create code that is reusable, secure, and defect-free. Teams also need the ability to regain control over code bases that have evolved over multiple iterations and diverged from their intended architecture. This paper explains how better application...

Tags: Software, Coverity, Analysis, Architecture, Team Management, Management

White papers 2009-04-13

Coverity puts open source architecture data online

Developers writing plug-ins can use this information to be certain their work aligns with that of the project. Or they can study the architecture of existing open soruce projects for hints on how to build larger systems. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Coverity, Application Architecture Library, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Effective Management of Static Analysis Vulnerabilities and Defects: Best Practices for Both Agile and Waterfall Development Environments

This paper discusses how to effectively implement and measure the success of static analysis tool, development and QA teams need to define goals and metrics early. With consensus on these key goals, teams can then install a project plan that will enable them to immediately start making progress towards those...

Tags: Team, Environment, Vulnerability, Best Practice, Coverity, Analysis, Development Environment, Team Management, Management

White papers 2008-12-13

Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-Threaded Applications: How to Eliminate Concurrency Defects With Static Analysis

Developers moving to multi-threaded applications need advanced new testing capabilities to help them control this new cause of software complexity. Because they are nearly impossible to replicate in dynamic testing environments, static analysis is uniquely suited to play an important role in eliminating concurrency defects early in the software development...

Tags: Software, Developer, Coverity, Analysis, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-07-17

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

Open Source Report: 2008

The Scan site is sponsored by Coverity with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This paper presents historical trend data collected by Scan researchers over the past two years. Findings are based on analysis of over 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from more than...

Tags: Coverity, Scan Site, Findings, Open Source

White papers 2008-05-20

Coverity Scales to Meet Teradata Challenge

Hundreds of major companies around the world use Teradata solutions to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance decision-making, customer relationships, and profitability. Given the prominent role Teradata data warehousing plays in its customers' businesses, the reliability and security of its software is truly mission-critical. Teradata needed...

Tags: Teradata, Coverity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2008-04-29

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

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: Coverity, Opera Software ASA, OS/X

Discussion threads 2007-12-24

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 2007-11-01

AudioCodes Ensures VoIP Software Quality and Security With Coverity

The proliferation of VoIP technology has generated significant opportunity for AudioCodes and companies that rely on AudioCodes to produce components and software for their telecommunications products. With market share for VoIP products influenced by each successive product release, AudioCodes needs reliable and secure software to support its rapid growth. Based...

Tags: Software, Security, VoIP, Audiocodes Ltd., Coverity, Software Quality, Telephony, Tools & Techniques, Telecommunications, Networking, Management

Case studies 2007-10-16

ARRIS: Pushing a Commitment to Quality to Higher Levels

ARRIS is a global communications technology company specializing in the design and engineering of broadband networks. ARRIS competes with the largest networking companies in the world for mission-critical cable telephony, video, and Internet business. Its key differentiator: Quality. With a focus on designing highly available systems, ARRIS is able to...

Tags: Coverity, ARRIS, Cable, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Personal Technology

Case studies 2007-07-02