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Coverity is a software engineering company that provides automated source code analysis tools to improve the software development process. Coverity’s advanced technology helps companies deliver the most reliable and secure software possible.

Hardware design has always been considered a difficult task, requiring significant investments in automation and verification. But the idea that building software is equally difficult has only recently gained credibility. Coverity meets that insight by providing automated tools that enable software developers to quickly, thoroughly, and accurately analyze their source code early in the development process.

These tools enable software developers to pinpoint defects that could cause catastrophic failures or security breaches. Coverity Prevent™ and Coverity Extend™ help software companies build better products, decrease time-to-market, and decrease risks

Coverity Introduces New Code Analysis Capabilities for Multi-threaded Applications

Coverity, the leader in improving software quality and security automatically, has introduced a sophisticated new concurrency defect detection capabilities in Coverity Prevent™, the company’s flagship static code analysis solution for C/C++ and Java. This new technology introduces the first static defect detection of race conditions, one of the most difficult to find concurrency errors that occurs in multi-threaded applications. Read

By: coverity | 24/04/2008 | Programming