A License to Kode

ABSTRACT

Dear KV, I'm in the QA group for a medium-size startup in Silicon Valley, and one of our VPs sits on the board of a company that makes code-scanning software--you know, the stuff that spits out warnings about all the bad things you can do in C and C++. We've definitely found our share of buffer overflows and other problems in our code, but this stuff is expensive, more than $5,000 a seat and I'm just not sure its worth it. What do you think of these tools?

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.m Miscellaneous

Additional Classification:
  A. General Literature
  A.m MISCELLANEOUS

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.m Miscellaneous

General Terms:
Design, Management