New
Coverity Product Saves Embedded Industry Leaders
Millions of Dollars
Brocade, Digeo, palmOne, Sleepycat Software, Symbol, Wind River reduce product defects with new version of Coverity Prevent
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8, 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
version 2.1 with new features designed to help embedded
developers find defects in software. The company also
announced that embedded industry leaders Brocade, Digeo,
palmOne, Sleepycat Software, Symbol, and Wind River
have licensed the product and have already saved millions
of dollars.
"We use Coverity on a continuous basis
during our nightly software builds for all of our main
products. To date, it has found many bugs-some of them
critical. Developer adoption has been rapid and the
CTO has mandated that all software projects be "Coverity
clean" before release," said Douglas Hart,
engineering manager at Digeo.
"Wind River has a long history of delivering quality
device software solutions that help developer create
products faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably,"
said John Fanelli, vice president of product planning
and management. "As part of our ongoing quest to
offer high quality, reliable solutions to our customers,
we rely on strong analysis tools such as those from
Coverity."
"Brocade has benefited from working with Coverity's
products," said Kinney Sumal, director of software
engineering at Brocade Communications Systems. "Coverity
Prevent helps us improve productivity and reduce time
to market."
"Leaders in the embedded industry came to us with
the extremely costly problem of having to fix security
vulnerbilities and software defects in the field,"
said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity. "We designed
the new version of Coverity Prevent to find and eliminate
software defects before embedded products ship to the
field. Embedded equipment manufacturers using Coverity
Prevent have already identified over $2 million in cost
savings."
Coverity extended the capability of Coverity Prevent,
their flagship source code analysis product with a new
feature that finds overruns of limited-size stacks common
in embedded operating system kernels and device drivers.
This class of errors can be extremely costly as it often
causes complete crashes of the software and operating
system. The problem often occurs in embedded product
design where developers are faced with limited resources
and strict stack limitations.
Memory leak analysis has also been improved. The new
product addresses recursive code structures and returns
false positive rates of less than 20%. Memory leaks
and overruns of limited-size stacks are two of the most
costly software errors in embedded product development.
Coverity will demonstrate their new product in booth
#1641 at the Embedded Systems Conference
in San Francisco, March 8-10, 2005.
About Coverity's Products
Coverity's core technology runs on a wide variety of
hardware and software platforms used by C and C++ developers.
It is unique amongst source code analysis solutions
in both its precision and scalability. Unlike many competing
technologies, Coverity simulates the effects that the
operations in the source code might have in the runtime
environment, rather than searching the source code for
known, dangerous coding patterns or potentially sloppy
coding constructs. The result is that the defects detected
by Coverity's analysis platform are potentially disastrous
runtime errors that must be fixed in the source code.
In addition, Coverity is designed to integrate easily
into existing software development practices without
any changes to existing build systems or existing development
tools.
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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