MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: Coverity Inc., a Synopsys company released the 2013 Coverity Scan Open Source Report. The report details the analysis of 750 million lines of open source software code through the ...

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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In today’s IT environments, security has become a major concern. Despite recent reports of software vulnerabilities in open source code, including Shellshock, the OpenSSL Heartbleed and GoToFail, ...

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 ...

In his seminal work The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond put forward the claim that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” He dubbed this Linus’ Law, in honor of Linux creator Linus ...

Report highlights progress over past decade, identifying key indicators of project maturity and underscoring the importance of measuring risk MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

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 ...