Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Coverity free static source code analysis trial

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 12:32:26 -0700
John Smith wrote:

You might be interested to know that apparently, Coverity is currently
offering a free trial of their static source code analysis tool
'Coverity Prevent for C/C++'. They have received good critique's in
the past by covering the code of open source products.

We're already part of their Scan program:

	http://scan.coverity.com/

in Rung 1, although the last run appears to have been back in October 2007. I'll poke David Maxwell about that.

I just thought that you might be interested in giving it a try for
doing a static analysis of the codebase. Anyway, you can apply at
the following URL :

http://www.coverity.com/html/free_trial.php

I'm not sure whether they're offering a free trial in the sense of being able to download a version of their software, or just in the sense that they'll run the software for you once (i.e., I'm not sure what they man by "you will receive a complimentary report detailing actionable analysis results").