The Coverity Scan service, which the study was based on, was started with the US Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The project was designed to give hard answers to questions about open source ...
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Software quality is a topic close to most developers’ hearts, whether they work with open-source or proprietary code. Assessing quality, however, isn’t a simple matter. As a result, several efforts ...
Commercial software code bases are significantly more secure than Open Source, according to the latest Coverity scan open source report. Static analysis defect density scans by the software quality ...
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Coverity's data supports claims of a 16 percent improvement or a 21 percent decline in open source code quality, depending on how the results are calculated Data from the Coverity Scan Open Source ...
"Right now, we're the bottleneck," admits Coverity open source strategist David Maxwell. "Unfortunately there's only so much time in the day to include all the projects." As open source development ...
The Coverity Scan service provides the company's patented development testing technology at no cost to the open source community, to help them build quality and security into their software ...
Coverity, a provider of software development testing solutions, announced two new integrations to help open-source software developers. The company announced two integrations for Coverity Scan, its ...