Coverity Scan in the news
- May 7, 2013
- - Coverity
- Annual Coverity Scan Report Finds Open Source and Proprietary Software Quality Better than Industry Average for Second Consecutive Year
- Fifth Annual Report Details the Analysis of More Than 450 Million Lines of Open Source and Proprietary Software Code
- May 7, 2013
- - InfoQ
- How to Get a Low Defect Density
- This article contains the testimonies of several project leaders detailing the process used to achieve a low Coverity Scan defect densit
- May 7, 2013
- - readwrite
- Study: Open Source Delivers Superior Quality... Up To A Point
- For years open source and proprietary software camps have fought over which model produces better software. According to Coverity's annual Scan report, released today, both sides are right. And wrong. Depending on how big the code base is.
- April 28, 2013
- - The Document Foundation Blog
- LibreOffice Happy To Work With Coverity Scan Results
- Coverity is a project that runs all kind of automated code checks, discovering typical but often hidden programming errors. Memory leaks, but also errors that may cause little, not so often encountered errors for the users. The reports from Coverity are a valuable contribution to - among others - the LibreOffice development process.
- April 8, 2013
- - #ifdef linux
- #ifdef linux: Coverity static analysis for C, C++ and Java code
- Coverity performs very deep analysis and its results may well surprise you... but rather that than unexpected surprises for your users.
- March 9, 2013
- - Jim's Blog
- POV-Ray Benefits from Static Software Analysis
- I'm pretty excited about the results, and have no doubt that Coverity is adding value to our project.
- December 1, 2012 - Phoronix
- Coverity Uncovers More Problems In Mesa
- A handful of memory-related issues were plugged up yesterday in Mesa thanks to the Coverity static code analysis tools. Coverity scans in the past have found dozens of problems in Mesa and hundreds of other free software projects.
- August 23, 2012 - The H
- Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 adds languages, stability and performance
- Apache OpenOffice, while still incubating at the Apache Software Foundation, has been updated by the developers to add new languages, improve stability and enhance performance. From version 3.4.1 onwards, the OpenOffice developers are making use of static analysis of the source code provided by Coverity, which will assist them in detecting bugs.
- August 1, 2012 - InfoSecurity
- 16 code defects uncovered for open source code bases
- Software testing firm Coverity has uncovered 16 code defects, similar to a defect recently found in the MySQL database server, in nine different open source code bases, including Nmap, OpenBabble, and Ncbi-tools.
- March 22, 2012 - Formtek
- Open Source: OS Quality Often Trumps Proprietary Alternatives
- A decade ago most enterprises avoided Open Source software, but things have changed. Right now Open Source use at enterprises stands at higher than 75 percent, and Gartner predicts that in just five years that 99 percent of enterprises will have adopted some amount of Open Source software
- March 6, 2012 - InfoQ
- Coverity: Open Source Code Has Fewer Defects than Commercial One
- February 24, 2012 - SD Times
- Study shows open-source code more bug-free than proprietary
- February 24, 2012 - IT World
- Report: Open source code matches proprietary code in quality
- February 24, 2012 - InfoWorld
- Report: Open source tops proprietary code in quality
- February 23, 2012 - Coverity
- Open Source Code Quality On Par with Proprietary Code in 2011 Coverity Scan Report
- February 23, 2012 - Linux Today
- Open Source Code Is As Good As Proprietary, Says Coverity
- February 23, 2012 - Experts Exchange
- REPORT: Open Source Software on Par With Proprietary Code Software
- February 23, 2012 - TechCrunch
- With Many Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow
- February 23, 2012 - webdev360
- Q&A: Coverity's Zack Samocha on open source code quality
- February 23, 2012 - CIO
- Actually, Open Source Code is Better Report
- February 23, 2012 - PCWorld
- Actually, Open Source Code Is Better Report