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. Finding problems in applications is ...

Editor’s Note: Excerpted from their book Embedded Systems Security, the authors go through an analysis of three popular, security-critical open source applications - Apache, OpenSSL, and sendmail – ...

Writing clean, bug-free code is a point of pride for any developer. For decades, tools that measure code quality have been a ...

The high cost of finding and patching application flaws is well known. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to write secure code in the first place? One of the fastest growing areas in the software security ...

How exhaustive static analysis overcomes the limitations of traditional tests and static-analysis tools. How exhaustive static analysis identifies a buffer overflow by using code samples. How hardware ...

Over the years, medical devices have become increasingly dependent on software. They have evolved from the use of a metronome circuit for early cardiac pacemakers to functions that include ...

Large-scale software systems are staggeringly complex works of engineering. Bugs inevitably come with the territory and for decades, the software profession has looked for ways to fight them. We may ...

Have you ever thought of how tools like Checkstyle or FindBugs perform a static code analysis, or how Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like NetBeans or Eclipse execute quick code fixes or ...

AI assistants are a double-edged sword for developers. On one hand, code-generation assistants have made creating barebones applications easier and led to a surge in code pushed to GitHub. Yet just as ...

Concurrency bug detection is a critical area in the development of multithreaded programmes, where errors arising from simultaneous thread execution can lead to unpredictable and often catastrophic ...