LDRA, a provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has launched v8.0 of the LDRA tool suite It claims to be the first fully automated end-to-end solution for software verification support. With the integration of requirements management, LDRA has enabled companies to trace, verify, and test their code through all stages of software development from requirements through static and dynamic analysis and testing. By tailoring standardized best-programming practices for cross-industry adoption, LDRA extends the cost- and resource-savings advantages to the embedded industry as a whole.

Coverity, makers of a source code analysis solution, today announced preliminary findings showing that open source developers fixed a software defect every six minutes in the week following Coverity’s analysis that established a baseline metric for software quality.