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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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 ...

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 ...

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Mountain View, Calif.-based software testing company Coverity has just released a new Scan report, this one focused on open-source big data projects and the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on ...

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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 ...

Coverity Inc., in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, has announced (PDF, registration required) the results of a two-year, open-source code-scanning initiative begun in 2006. At the ...

Software quality assurance provider Coverity has released a new tool that will allow application developers to write more secure code for multithreaded applications. Multithreaded applications are ...

Today, open source software (OSS) development is one of the primary driving forces of technological innovation. From artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things, autonomous driving, and cloud ...