Solutions - Computer Software

Feature-driven computer software often grows to become large and complex - creating great hiding places for operational defects and security vulnerabilities that can damage consumer trust in a brand if they are exploited. In addition, software destined for the enterprise is increasingly mission-critical. Computer software developers must change their approach and ensure that developers are empowered to build applications with security and high quality while working with daunting code bases, reducing costs and speeding time to market.

Klocwork Insight static source code analysis products help computer software development teams to meet these demands, with more efficient and complete coverage of the largest code bases. This leads to higher quality products that get to market faster - with lower support costs, fewer software patches and no high-profile glitches making the news.

Enhancing Software Security

Reducing software complexity and thoroughly testing all potential "attack surfaces" (Gartner) are important measures for ensuring higher security in software.

Klocwork enables development teams to find potentially catastrophic defects and security vulnerabilities during development. Development teams can automate the review of large amounts of software source code so that these never make it into the code stream. This frees Quality Assurance to focus on functional, integration, performance and other test activities.

Klocwork also provides architectural analysis features that reveal the relationships between components and high-risk software parts and support impact analysis. The data helps architects to reduce architectural complexity, improve maintainability and re-usability.

Reduce the Cost of Defects in Complex Code

The earlier a software bug is identified and fixed, the less costly it is to the organization (click on the graph for details). But until recently the only mechanisms available to check for bugs during development have been either manual code reviews and/or lint-type static code analyzers, neither of which is efficient or scalable to extremely large code bases.

Klocwork enables computer software developers to dramatically reduce the costs of software defects through automated source code analysis that ensures bugs never reach the code stream. Klocwork identifies bugs such as security vulnerabilities, quality defects, architectural breaches and maintainability issues prior to code check-in.

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