[infinispan-dev] Using Coverity scan?

Manik Surtani manik at jboss.org
Fri Dec 17 09:23:22 EST 2010


I never heard back from them.  If you feel like getting in touch with them, go ahead... 

On 16 Dec 2010, at 23:44, Sanne Grinovero wrote:

> Hello,
> sorry to revive a year-old thread, but would really love to get us
> covered by Coverity.
> I'm currently inspecting a very hard to track bug, I guess there is some missing
> synchronization, so this or suggestions for other tools for dynamic
> analysis would be great.
> 
> Sanne
> 
> 2009/11/30 Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org>:
>> Good idea, I'll ping them ...
>> 
>> On 29 Nov 2009, at 15:51, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> Did you consider enabling Infinispan to be monitored by coverity's
>>> code analysis services? They are free for OSS projects, I saw a demo
>>> recently and was quite amazed. It's similar to FindBugs, but not only
>>> about static code checks. They checkout your code from trunk and then
>>> run several analysis on it periodically, one of them is about dynamic
>>> thread behavior to predict deadlocks or missing fences instrumenting
>>> the code, and produce nice public reports; AFAIK you don't need to
>>> setup anything yourself, besides getting in touch to ask for it.
>>> It's only available for C and Java code, and they have an impressive
>>> list of OSS projects in the C world (linux kernel, httpd server,
>>> samba, gnome, GCC, PostgreSQL, ...) but not much on Java.
>>> http://scan.coverity.com/
>>> 
>>> No, I'm not affiliated :-) Just thinking that it might be useful to
>>> have if it's not too hard to setup.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sanne
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>> 
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