Code Assurance: How it's different

Code Assurance vs. Traditional Static Analysis

Code Assurance is complementary to traditional static analysis tools. By combining pattern search and data mining techniques with source code analysis, Pattern Insight focuses on a previously fixed bug (a "known" bug) and finds every instance of it, ensuring that it is never released again. Code Assurance can take any bug and forensically search all of its instances. These bugs can be discovered by any traditional method, but most of them are found by testing, reported by customers, or discovered by developers manually. This gives users the ability to selectively check only high impact bugs or security vulnerabilities if they don't want to waste time with minor issues.

Differentiators

• Code Assurance Is easy to use and implement. Relying on source code itself the ROI is gained in hours rather than days.
• Code Assurance is fast. Using proprietary indexing technology, Code Assurance usually reports results in seconds for any size of code base.
• Accuracy, usually more than 95% - completely eliminates the possibility of releasing known bugs.

Time Savings

Users can run traditional static analysis tools such as CodeSonar, Coverity or KlocWork once, then use Code Assurance to harness the results to quickly analyse other releases, branches and product variants.

• Code Assurance: How it's used

• Code Assurance: How it's different

• Code Assurance: How it works