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January 30, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Klocwork advances source code analysis

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Klocwork this week announced shipments of Klocwork Insight, bringing system-wide source code analysis to the developer desktop, the company said.

The company has filed multiple patents on what it calls ground-breaking advancements in the product.

With Insight, users get the productivity benefits of local desktop code analysis with the accuracy of system-wide analysis, thus making source code analysis a developer support tool. Organizations can find complex cross-system bugs within a developer's local build and ensure that vulnerabilities are not propagated into the code stream, according to Klocwork.

Developers can use a collaborative peer-to-peer environment that provides a view of an entire system from an individual workspace. Also, developers get greater connectivity to static analysis to enable them to contain defects at the point of creation rather than having to check in buggy code in order to find out what is broken.

The product, Klocwork said, gives development organizations the ability to track bug fix rates at the desktop. A reporting interface aggregates information on what is found by Klocwork and fixed on the desktop before code is checked into the integration build.

Also featured is a declarative language that can extend Klocwork products to customize analysis of C, C++ and Java for any code base, Klocwork said. Developers can extend the Klocwork built-in library by adding their own checkers for organizational, regulatory or code base requirements.

Posted by Paul Krill on January 30, 2008 04:48 PM

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