On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 00:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:11:13PM +0200, Johan Engelen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   Is this something we want to sign up to?
> > https://continuousassurance.org/
> > 
> > After a quick browse around their website, they seem to offer a platform 
> > that runs static analysis tools. We can run them ourselves (and have 
> > done so not so long ago), but it is nice to have a website do it for all 
> > of us. (unfortunately, not many of us compile with clang; I gave up the 
> > fight on Windows a while back, and will have to try again later)
> 
> Perhaps you could drop them a line and see if they have special offers
> for open source / non-profit projects like us?  Coverity has done this
> for various projects.
> 
> In any case, before forming an opinion on this I'd want to know the
> ballpark cost, and what the results/output looks like.

I just looked, it's free.

> >From past experience I know that the trick with static analysis tools is
> less in the actual running of them, and more in following up on getting
> the discovered issues resolved, so another question would be if we have
> volunteers interested in working on those issues.

I think this looks quite interesting. I would help out.

> I also suspect that 90% of the benefit will be gained from the first
> run, since it'll flag a ton of issues.  Once we've addressed all those,
> the amount of new issues that crop up over time should be much smaller.
> So if it ends up being very expensive, we could consider signing up for
> the minimum amount of time just to get the raw list of issues.

Tav




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