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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A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open-source security, while outlining some common errors. Coverity, a commercial code-analysis company spun out ...
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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 ...
"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 ...
Synopsys has released the 2017 Coverity Scan Report, which examines Open Source Software (OSS) quality and security data collected over the past decade through Coverity Scan, a free static analysis ...
Remarkable increases in hardware performance are enabling the design and creation of tools that were simply not possible years ago. With two processor cores tearing through 3 billion instructions per ...