Solutions - Embedded Programming

Boost productivity of embedded programming teams

Manage increasing complexity

Embedded software programmers are under increasing pressure to meet shrinking time-to-market requirements, cost pressures, and growing end-user expectations for greater functionality. Embedded programming teams must manage increasing complexity while continuing to create secure and reliable code.

According to the most recent report from VDC Research Group^*, embedded programming teams must manage the following aspects of project complexity:

Code size - Projects report an average of 2.2 million lines of software code, with an expected 29% increase in code size for the next project
Outsourcing - 47% of projects now outsource at least some engineering activities
Schedule - 40% of projects are completed behind schedule
Regulations - Industry-specific regulatory requirements that must be met, for example in the medical device, aerospace and healthcare industries

Boost productivity with SCA

Taken together, these various dynamics are leading to productivity challenges for embedded programming teams. Static analysis (a.k.a. automated source code analysis) can play an important role in boosting developer productivity while improving code security and quality - even as the embedded programming arena becomes more complex.

Static analysis is a valuable method for streamlining code quality activities on embedded programming teams. Automated static analysis tools such as Klocwork Insight work early in the development process to automatically detect and identify critical coding issues such as incorrect pointer usage, overflows and leaks that can cause field failures. Early detection leads to a more streamlined software process. Learn more about the issues that can be detected in your code at our defect and vulnerability page.

Improve embedded programming productivity with better software quality

Just as important, static analysis tools find bugs early, usually long before integration builds are available. The earlier bugs are found, the faster and cheaper it is to correct them - making it far more likely that they will be addressed in the embedded programming lifecycle, and ensuring that code quality issues don't become a productivity bottleneck.

Learn more

Read about Klocwork's solutions for Medical Devices, Military & Aerospace, and Network & Telecom Equipment

^*Balacco, Steve and Rommel, Chris. Embedded Systems Engineering Survey Data, Volume 3: Vertical Markets. VDC Research, November 2009.

In this section

Relevant Reads

WHITEPAPER: Source Code Analysis in an Agile World

To keep pace with ever-increasing customer demands on software functionality and time-to-market expectations, software developers have had to evolve the way they develop code to be both faster and higher quality. [...]

WEBINAR: Exploiting & Preventing a Firefox Vulnerability

Learn how to use static analysis tools to find and correct software vulnerabilities that can lead to 0day exploits [...]