Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd May 2008 18:21 UTC
Coverity has published the 2008 edition of its Open Source Report. The report uses static code analysis on C, C++, and Java source code to determine the quality of the code. These reports are funded by the US Department of Homeland Security and supported by Stanford University, and are part of the US government's Open Source Hardening Project. The report is based on over two years' worth of data from Coverity Scan.
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Coverity offers the use of their (full-featured) tool free-of-charge to any open-source project on the condition that any bugs they find include an attribution (i.e. "Found using Coverity") in their bug tracker.
It's a pretty sweet deal, since Coverity can easily cost over $1 million USD for proprietary projects, depending on the size of the codebase. All that open-source projects have to do is take advantage of this mutually-beneficial arrangement. There's no reason not to!