HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY, SCAN!
On March 6, 2007, Scan celebrates its one year mark.
To date, Scan has helped developers fix 6,132 software defects across 53 open source projects including 13 projects that have fixed all outstanding defects identified by the Scan analysis. Many more projects contacted Coverity asking to be included in the Scan; and hundreds of developers used Scan's analysis to improve their projects, making them more secure, more stable, and more maintainable.
WHAT'S NEXT
Today 100 new projects were added to Scan starting on rung 0 of the new Scan Ladder.
The Scan website has a new look with room for new projects as well as additional information for everyone interested in improving code quality.
Additionally, we’ve added new information about individual projects: See the AMANDA Graph and the Samba Graph for examples of things to come.
ABOUT THE NEW PROJECTS
The new projects come from a wide array of software categories.
| Library Projects |
These provide underlying support mechanisms for many other projects. They are so widely used that identifying defects benefits a huge number of users. |
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zlib, libwww, boost, ncurses, libpcap, libmcrypt and libgcrypt |
| Software Development Tools |
These tools generate code and documentation. |
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bison, pccts, nasm, GNU binutils, and doxygen |
| System Utility and Scripting Tools |
Used many, many times a day, by system administrators everywhere around the world |
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a2ps, GNU make, wget, GNU awk, nmap, net-SNMP, CUPS, and Expect |
| Python Extensions |
adding functionality to the Python programming language |
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Numeric, ORBit, mxDateTime, numarray, xml and subversion |
| Wide Character Support |
Making open source applications available in a variety of languages |
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anthy, chasen, kaksi, qkc, FreeWnn-lib, ja-less, ja-vflib, canna-lib, fribidi, eb, and dvipdfmx |
| Authentication |
open source tools authenticate millions of users to their servers every day |
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Courier-authlib, Cyrus-SASL, and FreeRADIUS |
| Audio Libraries and Applications |
eliminating defects lets the beat go on, and on, and on... |
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cdparanoia, cdrdao, cdrtools, festival, flac, nas, sox, and speex |
The full list of new projects is available on the rung 0 page.
Coverity is pleased to welcome the developers of these projects to Scan. We realize that there are many, many other projects who have asked to be included in Scan and we are working to include as many as possible.
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