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Turmoil has engulfed the Coders Kitchen. Fuzzing has established itself as the number one technique for highly automated software testing and is the favorite tool of security researchers

Aside from safety properties, can we use static analysis tools to detect security issues? Yes, as we will show by discussing a programming error in uftpd, an ftp server

Let’s continue our exploration: by monitoring software quality with a tool, you should benefit from the big quality concepts without the headaches. As we saw already, we have

The cost of fixing software is well understood. Much research has been done to demonstrate that fixing defects at the time of introducing them is significantly cheaper than

Fuzz Testing or Fuzzing is establishing itself as the number one technique for highly automated software testing and is the favorite tool of security researchers and hackers alike,

Quality Assurance (“QA”) is arguably the most critical aspect of safety-critical software.  However, QA is rarely given the attention or credit befitting its crucial role.  Consider the following

The software test automation tools market is full of solutions that all claim to do the same thing: automate software testing. Wikipedia lists over 100 test framework tools

We provide a 3D animation environment for the development and testing of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. Developing and maintaining this environment is a complex

The Standish Report tells that in 1994 ninety-one per cent (91%) of software projects failed, with thirty per cent (30%) ultimately cancelled. In 2020, 26 years later, seventy-one

In our previous six part series, we explored software quality, from concepts to benefits as a part of the development process. Now, what if we were to build

What did I do wrong and how can I fix it? When an error is encountered during the use of software, this is what the user wants to

As this is the last part of our software quality introduction series, it is time to look at some real examples. From its concept to the quality-fluent team,

What’s the software quality deficit gap? It’s the time taken to evolve a product from initial release until perceived as being of good quality. It is variable depending

The Safe & Secure Software Factory (SSSF) merges the principles of DevOps, Safety Criticality, Cyber Security and Industrial Manufacturing. SSSF enables you to create a completely automated process

We have exposed a nice framework in previous posts: raw data produce metrics and indicators, and a rating model evaluates quality for each project component. This can become

This post follows on from the previous one “Software code of ethics: Respect the privacy of your users”. Let’s continue our exploration of personal data protection rules and

In our previous post, we discussed objectives, metrics and indicators, as powerful concepts to finely assess multiple aspects of software quality (SQ).Using new concepts to deal with a

System integration no matter the approach; modular, big bang, regressive, controlled or adhoc can often be one of the most critical phases of a project. This is often

We all have experienced the growing impact of software in our lives. We are doing more in software development with each application we build, as the below chart

Let’s continue our journey across the software quality (SQ) landscape, as we learned it has the power to improve our code, even ourselves. And it is now time

In this post we’ll show what a healthy relationship with code quality looks like. After our introductory post, software quality (‘SQ’ for friends) might seem intimidating, maybe even

In the book How Google Tests Software – Help me test like Google, the authors describe how bugs resulting from incomplete testing are one of the biggest barriers

Software quality is a vast field, which has been the subject of many studies, standards and tools for a long time (if we think in “Software time”). To

A few years ago I read: “The Phoenix Project” which is a novel about the IT group at a fictional company that’s struggling with maintaining and enhancing their

Unidentical twins Code clones can be elusive. First of all, we’re not talking about the dumb copy/paste textual clones, we’re interested in the harder to see algorithmic kind

I was asked recently if the number of bugs found is the best measure of the value of testing.  Honestly, I had to think about this for a

When a physical product is designed for manufacturing, a lot of time is spent on organizing how the item is built and testing the completed product. Manufacturing issues

To bit or not to bit? Source code is present in pretty much everything we interact with today: phone apps, vehicle GPS, aircraft multimedia or flight controls, technological

Software used to be seen as something that could be written once and used many times without ever “breaking down.” However, that illusion faded when problems began to

One of the challenges that all software development groups face is the trade-off between time-to-market and adding new features.  Software is so malleable that it is tempting to

Like clones from a famous galactic franchise, source code clones can be dangerous if you let them multiply: They carry bugs, which then also multiply. Clones artificially inflate