We may not see perfect source code in our lifetime, but we are seeing much better analysis tools and promising new approaches to remedy the problem.

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 ...

Tracing vulnerabilities from code to runtime can also reveal hard-to-find issues such as a reachable vulnerability in an open-source package that is used on an internet-reachable cloud workload.

Klocwork Insight for C/C++ and Java brings static source code analysis to Java developers. It can help improve code quality while reducing bugs and addressing security vulnerabilities ...

Sonar, the leading provider of integrated code quality and code security solutions, is unveiling SonarQube Advanced Security, which extends SonarQube's analysis capabilities-which currently cover ...

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to write secure code in the first place? One of the fastest growing areas in the software security industry is source code analysis tools, also known as static analysis tools.

In its analysis, Coverity found that open-source developers are interested in code quality and in trying to make it better and more secure, Maxwell said.

Static source code analysis tools can be an invaluable tool for software developers. Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with some of the major vendors in this space.