Open Source Coders' Speed Astounds Coverity
News More than 900 flaws were repaired in the two weeks after Coverity, which makes tools to analyse source code, announced the results of its first scan of 32 open source projects. As a result, some of the software is now entirely bug free, Coverity...
[April 5, 2006, 9:45]
Open-source Bug-hunting Effort To Grow
News This allows open-source developers to find and resolve defects introduced into the project," David Maxwell, open-source strategist for Coverity, said in a statement. Coverity makes source-code analysis tools and shares the DHS contract with...
[March 28, 2007, 9:01]
US Government To Fund Open Source Bug Hunt
News Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24m (£702,000) in funding to Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open source software and to improve Coverity's commercial tool for...
[January 11, 2006, 9:05]
Fixing The Bug Fixers
Leader But however many bugs are caught, there is one big flaw in the concept: a large chunk of the funding is going directly to two proprietary companies — Coverity and Symantec — which own the closed-source bug-hunting tools.
[March 28, 2007, 18:13]
