Coverity audit finds Open Source software has fewer bugs than in 2006
June 5th, 2008The Register reports:
The quality of open source code has improved over the last two years, according to an audit sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security.
The security and quality of more than 250 open source projects – including Apache, Linux, Firefox and PHP – was assessed using code analysis tools from Coverity as part of the federal government’s Open Source Hardening Project. Coverity set up a scan site that invited individual developers to put their code through its paces with its static source code analysis tool, Coverity Prevent.
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