Coverity
Announces New Products to Eliminate Computer System Crashes
and Software Security Flaws
Early customers VERITAS and Revivio implement Coverity
Prevent and Coverity Extend to improve software quality
in mission-critical applications
SAN FRANCISCO, February 2, 2005 –
Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's most advanced
and scalable source code analysis solution for pinpointing
software defects and security vulnerabilities, today
announced the general availability of Coverity Prevent
and Coverity Extend. These new products improve software
quality by reducing or eliminating computer system crashes,
security vulnerabilities, and performance degradation
by discovering defects in software code during development.
"Coverity Prevent and Coverity Extend are helping
our global customers build the most secure, reliable
and stable products on the market," said Seth Hallem,
CEO of Coverity. "Businesses are fed up with system
crashes and software glitches. Coverity is working to
eliminate software defects at the source, fixing problems
as soon as software is written and thoroughly inspecting
existing software for defects that that quality assurance
tests couldn't find."
As software is embedded in more products for increasingly
critical use such as networking switches and in enterprise
storage products, the cost of software defects is skyrocketing.
The US government's National Institute of Science and
Technology (NIST) estimates that poor software quality
costs customers more than $59.5 billion a year.
"Our experience teaches us that the earlier in
the development cycle a bug is found and fixed, the
less it costs us. The most expensive bugs are the ones
that are encountered by customers on their production
systems," explains Oleg Kiselev, VERITAS distinguished
engineer, Storage and Server Management Group. "We
chose Coverity for two reasons: First, their products
can help us improve the quality of our software during
source code development. Second, Coverity does not cause
disruption or significant changes in our engineering
process."
Coverity Prevent automatically analyzes millions of
lines of software code and follows every path that the
software can take, giving developers 100% path coverage
with a very low false positive rate. Developers can
use Coverity Prevent to accurately identify a wide range
of problems, including faulty code sequences that crash
computer systems, poor performance, and faulty program
behavior.
Coverity Extend further improves software development
processes by allowing the creation and enforcement of
custom coding rules unique to different companies. With
Coverity Extend, software managers can design policies
for optimized software engineering that are customized
for their own development teams. These policies are
automatically enforced by simple rules that Coverity
Prevent can use to analyze coding practices of hundreds
of developers working on distributed, large-scale software
projects.
"The low false positive rate and customization
capability of Coverity Extend allow us not only to fix
bugs, but to fix the kinds of bugs that can be extremely
difficult to find by other means, and to fix them early
in the development cycle," said Jeff Darcy, software
architect at Revivio, the leading provider of continuous
data protection (CDP) technology. "This added capability
increases the efficiency of our team, allowing them
to focus less on fixing problems and more on building
the product feature set our customers demand."
Coverity Extend and Coverity Prevent work with source
code written in C or C++ for FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux,
Solaris, Windows, and other enterprise operating systems.
The products are an upgrade to the older Coverity SWAT
solution. The Coverity SWAT and Metal product names
will be phased out.
New features in Coverity Prevent include:
- Extremely high quality results-Coverity continues
to set the standard in the industry by providing the
lowest false positive rate.
- Faster performance-Coverity Prevent™ provides
results even faster by running code analyses on multiple
machines in parallel.
- Finds more defects-Coverity Prevent™ has expanded
its use of statistical inference techniques to find
more relevant null-dereference and ignored error return
codes.
About Coverity, Inc.
Coverity (www.coverity.com), makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution for pinpointing software defects and security vulnerabilities, is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity was founded in 2002 by leading Stanford University scientists whose four-year research project resulted in a breakthrough approach for addressing the costliest problem in the software industry. That research breakthrough allows developers to quickly and precisely eliminate software defects and security vulnerabilities in tens of millions of lines of new or legacy code. Today, Coverity's solution is used by more than 40 leading companies to significantly improve the quality of their software, including Juniper Networks, VERITAS, McAfee, Synopsys, NASA, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems and Wind River.
Coverity is a registered trademark, and Coverity Extend and Coverity Prevent
are trademarks of Coverity, Inc. All other company and
product names are the property of their respective owners.
Media Contacts
David Park
dave@coverity.com
(415) 321-5204
Craig Oda
Page One PR
coda@pageonepr.com
(650) 565-9800, x102
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