Coverity finds improvements during project to examine more than 55 million lines of code
A code analysis of popular open source software projects has revealed that the quality and security of open source software continues to improve.
In its "Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008," Coverity analyzed more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from more than 250 open source projects. Detailed Tuesday, the project utilized the Coverity Prevent static source code analyzer and was done during a two-year period. Some of the projects analyzed included the Apache Web server, Linux, Firefox, and the Samba file and printer sharing system. Scripting languages such as PHP and Ruby were examined as well.
"We run the source code through our static analysis tool, which identifies certain types of software defects for them and developers can look at the result," said David Maxwell, open source strategist for Coverity.
Coverity in its analysis found that open source developers are interested in code quality and making efforts to make it better and more secure, Maxwell said.
"We can see from the statistics many developers are quite passionate about writing good code," Maxwell said.
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A code analysis of popular open source software projects has revealed that the quality and security of open source software continues to improve.
In its "Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008," Coverity analyzed more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from more than 250 open source projects. Detailed Tuesday, the project utilized the Coverity Prevent static source code analyzer and was done during a two-year period. Some of the projects analyzed included the Apache Web server, Linux, Firefox, and the Samba file and printer sharing system. Scripting languages such as PHP and Ruby were examined as well.
"We run the source code through our static analysis tool, which identifies certain types of software defects for them and developers can look at the result," said David Maxwell, open source strategist for Coverity.
Coverity in its analysis found that open source developers are interested in code quality and making efforts to make it better and more secure, Maxwell said.
"We can see from the statistics many developers are quite passionate about writing good code," Maxwell said.
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