Code Quality Whitepapers

Insight and background on improving code quality

How Do Fixes Become Bugs? A Comprehensive Characteristic Study on Incorrect Fixes in Commercial and Open Source Operating Systems - In many development organizations, bug fixing is still largely a human process. This paper presents a comprehensive characteristic study on incorrect bug-fixes from large operating system code bases including Linux, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and also a mature commercial OS.

Smartphone Software Quality: Detecting and Eliminating Bugs Critical to User Satisfaction - Find out how to cope with Android branching/patching complexities, why current source control systems fail to prevent these costly bugs from being released and how solving this problem accelerates time-to-market and delivers significant ROI.

Using Static Analysis to support DO-178B - This document describes how static analysis tools like CodeSonar can be used  to support an organisation’s DO-178B activities.

Improving Software Quality - How to detect and eliminate known software defects

Achieving ISO 26262 compliance - A whitepaper that discusses how to achieve compliance using static analysis tools

Static Source Code Analysis -  An overview of Static Analysis