Paul Krill
Editor at Large

Klocwork advances source code analysis

analysis
Jan 30, 20082 mins

Klocwork this week announced shipments of Klocwork Insight, bringing system-wide source code analysis to the developer desktop, the company said. The company has filed multiple patents on what it calls ground-breaking advancements in the product. With Insight, users get the productivity benefits of local desktop code analysis with the accuracy of system-wide analysis, thus making source code analysis a developer

Klocwork this week announced shipments of Klocwork Insight, bringing system-wide source code analysis to the developer desktop, the company said.

The company has filed multiple patents on what it calls ground-breaking advancements in the product.

With Insight, users get the productivity benefits of local desktop code analysis with the accuracy of system-wide analysis, thus making source code analysis a developer support tool. Organizations can find complex cross-system bugs within a developer’s local build and ensure that vulnerabilities are not propagated into the code stream, according to Klocwork.

Developers can use a collaborative peer-to-peer environment that provides a view of an entire system from an individual workspace. Also, developers get greater connectivity to static analysis to enable them to contain defects at the point of creation rather than having to check in buggy code in order to find out what is broken.

The product, Klocwork said, gives development organizations the ability to track bug fix rates at the desktop. A reporting interface aggregates information on what is found by Klocwork and fixed on the desktop before code is checked into the integration build.

Also featured is a declarative language that can extend Klocwork products to customize analysis of C, C++ and Java for any code base, Klocwork said. Developers can extend the Klocwork built-in library by adding their own checkers for organizational, regulatory or code base requirements.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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