Coverity at LINUXCON Europe 2013: Comparing Open Source and Commercial Static Analysis Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Coverity, Inc., the leader in development testing, today announced it will present at LINUXCON Europe 2013:

What: "A Comparison of Open Source and Commercial Static Analysis Solutions – A Case of Apples and Oranges"
When: Monday, October 21, 2013, 3:20 PM GMT
Where: Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Who: Zack Samocha, Senior Director of Products for Coverity

The presentation will discuss the most common defects found in open source code, based on the Coverity Scan® service analysis of more than 300 million lines of code in more than 600 open source projects, including Linux, Python and ANTLR. It will also examine and compare the defects found in Jenkins using a variety of open source and commercial static analysis solutions.

In 2006, the Coverity Scan service was initiated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the largest public-private sector research project in the world, focused on open source software quality and security. Coverity now manages the project, providing its development testing technology as a free service to the open source community to help them build quality and security into their software development process.

Interested individuals can register here for LINUXCON Europe 2013.

About Coverity
Coverity, Inc., (www.coverity.com), the leader in development testing, is the trusted standard for companies that need to protect their brands and bottom lines from software failures. More than 1,100 Coverity customers use Coverity's development testing platform to automatically test source code for software defects that could lead to product crashes, unexpected behavior, security breaches, or catastrophic failure. Coverity is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity is funded by Foundation Capital and Benchmark Capital. Follow us on Twitter or check out our blog.

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