Boston, MA 09/15/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS)’s company Coverity, Inc. today reported the outcome of its most recent Coverity Scan™ Project Spotlight. The project accessed the LibreOffice open source program.
Coverity’s project additionally analyzed defect density, as well as the various identified defect types, in comparison to the industry average. As reported in an article published by PRNewswire, the announcement is a revision of its Nov, 2013 issue.
LibreOffice, a Document Foundation program, started in 2010. It was initiated as a subsidiary of the OpenOffice open source venture suite. The project is the default office suite of the highly admired Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Red Hat and Novell. The project is also supported by technology companies including, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD), as well as Free Software Foundation, Inc. It can be availed in over 112 languages and is ideal for numerous computing platforms such as Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Superior To Others
The LibreOffice group has evaluated over 9 million coding lines to identify and debug over 6,000 defects, since previous year’s Coverity Scan Project Spotlight. Some defects identified include error handling issues, resource leaks and null pointer dereferences. The team also sought to improve the defect’s density by cutting it down from 0.8 to 0.08. The value is significantly lower than the same parameter value for similar sized projects which deploy the Coverity Scan feature. In order to make comparisons, the 2013 Coverity Scan Open Source Report detected the average density fault for open source programs having over 1 million coding lines. The value was found to be 0.65 and for similar sized proprietary codes, it was found to be 0.71.
In this context, Coverity Products’ senior director said LibreOffice has demonstrated excellent outcome after using the service for only a couple of years. This highlights the mission criticality of software analysis for the OS group to detect and debug defects efficiently.
