Static Code Analyzers

Code Quality Tools for Higher Quality and Compliance

Overview

Perforce Static Analysis Tools have Been Trusted for 30+ Years

Perforce’s static analysis tools have been trusted code quality tools for over 30 years for their ability to deliver the most accurate and precise results to mission-critical project teams across a variety of industries.

Static Analysis

Perforce Static Analysis

For Safe, Secure, High-Quality Code. Faster.

Static analysis identifies defects, vulnerabilities, and compliance issues as you code. It finds issues that are often missed by other tools and methods, such as compilers and manual code reviews. With static analysis, you can fix coding issues earlier — lowering overall costs and enabling you to deliver a quality product on time.

• Improve Software Quality
• Comply with Coding Standards
• Code with Confidence
• Reduce Technical Debt

Perforce QAC

Enforce Compliance with Perforce QAC

Perforce QAC is the preferred static code analyzer for C, C++, and Rust in tightly regulated and safety-critical industries that need to meet rigorous compliance requirements.

• Accelerate compliance for functional safety and coding standards.
• Certified for Safety Related Development by TÜV-SÜD for ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 70716, IEC 62304, and IEC 60880.
• Certified by Schellman for ISO 9001 and ISO 27001.

Perforce Klocwork

Accelerate Time-to-Market and Deliver Secure, Quality Code

Perforce Klocwork SAST for C, C++, C#, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Kotlin identifies security vulnerabilities and scales to projects of any size for the entire enterprise.

• Improve DevSecOps and AppSec across the organization.
• Boost speed, productivity, and compliance.

Perforce Validate

Control, Collaboration, and Reporting

Perforce Validate, the continuous security and code compliance platform, provides a centralized store of analysis data, trends, and configurations for codebases across the organization.

• Easily produce compliance and security reports.
• Control access permissions and approval workflows.
• Manage and prioritize defects based on severity, location, and lifecycle.
• Streams functionality provides efficient management of variants, branches, and releases for a single codebase.
• Web/REST API functionality enables integration with other tools and processes across the SDLC.

AI-Assisted Code Remediation

Go beyond issue detection to immediate resolution. Turn Perforce Static Analysis into a collaborative coding assistant focused on safety, security, and compliance.

How It Works

• Code and Analyze
  As you write code in the VS Code IDE, Perforce Static Analysis tools let you run incremental analysis on-demand, helping you catch coding errors, code smells, and security vulnerabilities early.

• Receive Intelligent Fixes
  The integrated AI assistant immediately analyzes the defect using deep contextual data and suggests highly accurate, compliant code correction.

• Review and Approve
  The developer reviews the AI’s suggestion, uses GitHub CoPilot interactive chat to fine-tune the result if necessary, and approves the fix before automatic re-analysis of the changes are applied.

Perforce Static Analysis by the Numbers

Benefits of Perforce Static Analysis

Here are just a few of the many benefits of Static Analysis.

Coding Standards Compliance

Ensure your software is compliant with published, well-established coding standards, such as MISRA and CERT.

Code Quality Management

Automate reporting on code quality trends and compliance status to effectively measure code quality metrics and track defects.

Large-Scale Projects

Perforce’s static code analyzers quickly inspect millions of lines of source code, identifying vulnerabilities in both legacy and new code.

Developer Productivity

Perforce’s static analyzers provide developers with feedback as they code, which reduces the number of mistakes and time spent on rework — lowering overall project costs.

Trusted by Industry Leaders

Perforce Static Analysis Coding Standard and Language Coverage

Who Uses Static Analysis, Code Quality Tools?

The use of code quality tools is growing within every kind of industry. It is especially important for the development of mission-critical software in

Automotive

A typical passenger car runs more than 100 million lines of code. This software requires careful review to ensure safety, reliability, and compliance.

Aerospace and Defense

Aerospace, defense, and military organizations use embedded software everyday. Developers have an obligation to ensure that the software is safe, secure, reliable, and free of any defects.

Medical Device

The quality of software embedded in medical devices can mean the difference between life and death. There is increasing scrutiny for both safety and security in medical device software.

Energy Technology

Energy and utilities product development teams need to ensure functional safety compliance, meet industry regulations as well as mitigate potential security vulnerabilities and coding errors.

See Why Perforce Static Code Analyzers Are the Most Trusted

Find out why thousands of developers choose Perforce QAC and Klocwork to help them develop high-quality software that is safe and secure, reliable, and compliant.