Linux Kernel Bugs Squished
News As a result, the overall bug density - the number of bugs per thousand lines of code - only decreased from 0.17 defects to 0.16 defects, according to Coverity's scan. In December, Coverity looked at version 2.6.9 of the Linux kernel, the heart of...
[August 4, 2005, 9:00]
Open-source Security Moves To Next Step
News The Open Source Hardening Project, sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security, uses Coverity's Scan, which grades projects on a "ladder" according to their progress at fixing and preventing flaws.
[January 11, 2008, 14:19]
Open-source Bug-hunting Effort To Grow
News Coverity has updated its scan.coverity.com website to give a graphical overview of the flaws that were found. This allows open-source developers to find and resolve defects introduced into the project," David Maxwell, open-source strategist for...
[March 28, 2007, 9:01]
Coverity Reveals Common Open-source Code Flaws
News Coverity, a commercial code-analysis company spun out of Stanford University, has been running its Scan project with Department of Homeland Security funding since 2006. On Tuesday, Coverity released its Open Source Report, which gives results of...
[May 20, 2008, 17:35]
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]
