Coverity


Coverity is a proprietary static code analysis tool from Synopsys. This product enables engineers and security teams to find and fix software defects.
Before its acquisition by Synopsys, Coverity was an organization founded in the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and with headquarters in San Francisco. In June 2008, Coverity acquired Solidware Technologies. And in February 2014, Coverity announced an agreement to be acquired by Synopsys, an electronic design automation company, for $350 million net of cash on hand.

Products

Coverity is a static code analysis tool for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python,.Net Core, ASP.NET, Objective-C, Go, JSP, Ruby, Swift, Fortran, Scala, VB.NET, ioS, and Typescript. It also supports more than 70 different frameworks for Java, JavaScript, C# and other languages.
Coverity Scan is a free static-analysis cloud-based service for the open source community.

Applications

Under a United States Department of Homeland Security contract in 2006, the tool was used to examine over 150 open source applications for bugs; 6000 bugs found by the scan were fixed across 53 projects.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration used the tool in its 2010-2011 investigation into reports of sudden unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles. The tool was used by CERN on the software employed in the Large Hadron Collider and in the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the flight software development of the Mars rover Curiosity.

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