(click to enlarge) The results page of a static analysis tool. In this example, the tool found 1400 uninitialized variables in less than 20 minutes. Recently the FDA software forensics lab announced ...

One of the best ways to protect your software project from avoidable bugs is the use of Java static code analysis tools. These tools can help identify and fix problematic code before it reaches ...

How exhaustive static analysis overcomes the limitations of traditional tests and static-analysis tools. How exhaustive static analysis identifies a buffer overflow by using code samples. How hardware ...

The high cost of finding and patching application flaws is well known. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to write secure code in the first place? One of the fastest growing areas in the software security ...

being a user of PCLINT for some years now (private and professional), I was thinking whether some static analysis tool could help our company to spot issues like 32 vs. 64bit discrepancies and - more ...

Static analysis isn’t dead like some have suggested. Has static analysis lost some of it’s luster? Absolutely! Many of the studies would suggest that static analysis tools (commercial and open-source) ...

Static source code analysis tools have evolved from simple syntax checkers to powerful tools for identifying flaws in the complex interactions of large code bases. Until recently, however, they were ...

Static analysis works on source code and tries to identify errors based on what it can tell about the program. For example, it can highlight “dead code” that will never execute. And sometimes it can ...

Over the years, medical devices have become increasingly dependent on software. They have evolved from the use of a metronome circuit for early cardiac pacemakers to functions that include ...

Burlington, Mass. — The inForce, inSight, and inSpect static analysis tools now allow designers to understand and analyze Java architectures. inSight extracts an accurate representation of the ...