Re: scan.coverity.com
2009/2/20 Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic(a)comcast.net>:
Coverity, under contract to the US Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), has scanned over 2,500 open source projects for defects using
their (proprietary) automated defect detection technology.
GNU Emacs is one of the projects that they've scanned and has advanced
to Rung 1 and is apparently fixing bugs discovered by the Coverity
scanning.
I'd like to see XEmacs included in this effort, and I volunteer being
the XEmacs point of contact, the person responsible for submitting
releases to be scanned and for filing the resulting bug reports.
More info: http://scan.coverity.com/index.html
Comments?
--- Vladimir
Over the summer of 2006, I had the opportunity to use several source
code scanners that were licensed by the lab I was visiting. I took
the opportunity to run them over the XEmacs code base at that time.
If you look at the ChangeLogs for that summer, you'll see I did a
bunch of bug fixing. I never addressed all of the issues those
scanners found, and some of the scanner versions were old even then.
I was impressed with the subtlety of the bugs those scanners turned
up. I think this would be really great. Go for it!
--
Jerry James
http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/
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