With the growing number of cybersecurity threats and stringent government policies, organizations are obliged to follow security measures to ensure robust protection at all times. This is where the ...

When thinking about loops in programming languages, they often get simplified down to a conditions section and a body, but this belies the dizzying complexity that emerges when considering loop edge ...

Static code analysis offers extensive insights into code that can help you improve code quality and security, the speed of development, and even team collaboration and planning. Here’s everything you ...

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 ...

PRQA has added functionality in its latest releases of QA and QA++, including Dataflow, Graphical and Command Line Interfaces, support for Modern C++ features and improved coverage for MISRA C++ and ...

IAR Systems, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, announced an update of its build tools supporting implementation in Linux-based frameworks for automated ...

Almost without exception, as soon as a new security vulnerability is reported, people ask us, “Could a static analysis tool have found that bug?” Yesterday was no different when Poodle was announced.

What is the difference between static code analysis and dynamic code analysis? Is one method preferred over another in terms of security? Static and dynamic code analyses are performed during source ...

The last time we talked about static code analysis was with Visual Studio 2010 in these two articles: "Static Code Analysis in VS2010" and "Static Code Analysis Configuration." Code Analysis is used ...

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 ...