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Firefox Analyzed for Bugs by Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the killing-bugs-dead dept.

eldavojohn writes "In a brief article on CNet, a company named Coverity announced that Firefox is using software to detect flaws in Firefox's source code. Even more interesting is the DHS initiative for Coverity to use this same bug detection software on 40 open source projects." An interesting tidbit from the article: "Most of the 40 programs tested averaged less than one defect per thousand lines of code. The cleanest program was XMMS, a Unix-based multimedia application. It had only six bugs in its 116,899 lines of code, or .51 bugs per thousands lines of code. The buggiest program is the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, or AMANDA, a Linux backup application first developed at the University of Maryland. Coverity found 108 bugs in its 88,950 lines of code, or about 1.214 bugs per thousand lines of code." We've covered this before, only now Firefox is actually licensing the Coverity software and using it directly.

8 of 226 comments (clear)

  1. Bug/Lines of Code by X43B · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It had only six bugs in its 116,899 lines of code, or .51 bugs per thousands lines of code."

    Sounds like someone needs to run this debugger on their calculator.

  2. Once detected can they also fix the flaws? by Browzer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or that job is left for the monkeys banging on the keyboards.

  3. Meanwhile... by Skiron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Coverity segfaulted whilst auditing MS Vista.

    1. Re:Meanwhile... by HRogge · · Score: 3, Funny

      Run it against Windows ME and you will get an interger overflow.

  4. Re:GNAA by biscon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like somebody failed troll academy ;)

  5. Re:Thank God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And thank god for that score. I don't mind my AMANDA backups being corrupted, but if my mp3 of "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" ever skipped a beat, I wouldn't know what to do...

  6. Re:not just any software? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Didn't they always use software of some sort, Bugzilla, etc?
    Unfricking believable! You obviously know nothing about this subject, so please, please keep your trap shut and let the grown-ups talk.
  7. Re:If this is the same by Transcendent · · Score: 2, Funny

    There seems to be a bug in your link...