In the Windows world, a static source code analyzer called PREfast, which has been used internally at Microsoft for years, will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System. PREfast is ...

Looking to aid developers who rely on external software components, Microsoft has introduced a source code analyzer, Microsoft Application Inspector, to help surface features and other ...

The static source-code analyzer aims to help developers handle potential security issues that arise through code reuse when incorporating open-source components, such as software libraries, into a ...

Microsoft announced a source code analyzer called Microsoft Application Inspector that can help developers identify “interesting” features and metadata.

A Russian company behind the PVS-Studio static code analyzer claims to have used the tool to discover more than 10,000 bugs in various open source projects, including well-known offerings such as the ...

To help demonstrate the types of coding errors that can be efficiently detected and prevented using static source code analysis, we consider a case study of three popular, security-critical open ...

To help demonstrate the types of coding errors that can be efficiently detected and prevented using static source code analysis, we consider a case study of three popular, security-critical open ...

You go ahead and run a C++ compiler on that code, and it's very difficult to analyze what's wrong." With the AccurateC release 2.4, Bartlett said, users can run the analyzer before compiling their ...