Static program analysis is a cornerstone in verifying, optimising, and debugging modern software systems. By evaluating code without executing it, these techniques enable early detection of defects, ...

When should static analysis be applied?” The answer to this question is fairly straightforward: “whenever code is being developed.” This however, is a simplification, writes Bill Graham The longer ...

Supply chain security startup Socket Inc. announced today that it has acquired cloud-based automated code review software startup Coana ApS for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2021, Coana is a Danish ...

Static analysis has established itself as a "must-have" for the verification of critical software. Notably, it can find problems that are hard to uncover by testing, such as concurrency issues and ...

Software Analysis or Static Program Analysis is a course of Nanjing University developed by Tian Tan and Yue Li in Spring 2020. In this course, we will learn about static program analysis, a useful ...

Facebook has announced that it’s open-sourcing Infer, a code verification tool used to identify buggy mobile code before it ships. The social network giant procured Infer as part of a deal to acquire ...

Professor Eric Bodden, a computer scientist at Paderborn University and director of the Fraunhofer IEM, has been awarded the ‘ERC Advanced Grant’ of 2.5 million euros by the European Research Council ...

It’s no secret that the U.S. government, as most businesses are today, is a big consumer of open source. The question is, as more and more critical projects begin to rely on community-contributed code ...