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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
- Security certification for open-source projects
- Under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, open-source projects are being certified for security. An excerpt from TechWorld: The programme, called the Open Source Hardening Project, is sponsored by the DHS and carried out by Coverity and Stanford University. Launched in March 2006, the...
- Tags: Security, Certification, Coverity, Open-source Project, Open Source, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Security research suggests Linux has fewer flaws
- Security research suggests Linux has fewer flawsarticle rootquick summationIn short: Open source development produces more secure, less flawed code. Linux has no more flaws than Windows, and probably a lot less. Linux has managed to achieve these results without intensive vetting by analysis tools that Microsoft has...
- Tags: apotheon, flaw, Linux, Microsoft Corp., security, Security Research
- Discussion threads 2004-12-14
- Study: Few bugs in MySQL database
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, database, MySQL, Coverity, analysis, Seth Hallem, tool, software
- Technical articles 2005-02-07
- Security research suggests Linux has fewer flaws
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- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, security, Security Research, Linux, Coverity, operating system, Microsoft Windows, flaw, Seth Hallem, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2004-12-14
Additional Resources
- Security through visibility: The secrets of open source security
- Debatesrage across the Internet about the comparative security of Microsoft Windows and Linux-based operating systems.Many people have vested and biased interests in their positions on the matter. Misconceptionsborn of incomplete knowledge and logical fallacies contribute to the confusionand the heat of the debate. Advertising campaigns attempt to cast theirsponsors in...
- Tags: Chad Perrin, obscurity, open source, open-source development, security, software, software security
- Technical articles 2006-04-25
- Linux developers create forum to air core flaws
- Linux developers create forum to air core flawsarticle rootLinux will not be exemptVirus writers will no longer be targeting only Microsoft products... and the challenge to the linux/Open source community is to maintain Linux as a safe amd secure operating system. And so far they've fared pretty well. But virus...
- Tags: flaw, Jacqui, Linux, Microsoft Corp., richards_unsubcribe@..., security, virus
- Discussion threads 2005-02-08
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