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Theo not impressed somewhere

Theo not impressed somewhere

Posted May 2, 2007 8:07 UTC (Wed) by khim (guest, #9252)
In reply to: Theo not impressed somewhere by bluefoxicy
Parent article: Coverity to Regularly Scan Security and Quality of 250 Open Source Projects

You need a context to compare. Tools like Coverity are indeed almost useless if you want to catch malicious code (==code which does not what it must do because someone made it this way on purpose), but they are very-very good on catching typos and other stupid errors...


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