Fans of free and open source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open source code typically has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software ...

The Coverity Scan service, which the study was based on, was started with the US Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The project was designed to give hard answers to questions about open source ...

Software quality is a topic close to most developers’ hearts, whether they work with open-source or proprietary code. Assessing quality, however, isn’t a simple matter. As a result, several efforts ...

Commercial software code bases are significantly more secure than Open Source, according to the latest Coverity scan open source report. Static analysis defect density scans by the software quality ...