| author | Gareth Stockwell <gareth.stockwell@accenture.com> |
| Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:44:00 +0100 | |
| branch | graphics-phase-3 |
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Coverity has a static analysis tool (Prevent) which is similar to Klocwork. |
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They run their tool on the Python source code (SVN head) on a daily basis. |
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The results are available at: |
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http://scan.coverity.com/ |
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About 20 people have access to the analysis reports. Other |
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people can be added by request. |
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Prevent was first run on the Python 2.5 source code in March 2006. |
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There were originally about 100 defects reported. Some of these |
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were false positives. Over 70 issues were uncovered. |
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Each warning has a unique id and comments that can be made on it. |
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When checking in changes due to a warning, the unique id |
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as reported by the tool was added to the SVN commit message. |
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False positives were annotated so that the comments can |
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be reviewed and reversed if the analysis was incorrect. |
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Contact python-dev@python.org for more information. |