What Is Helix QAC
For over 30 years, Helix QAC has been the trusted static analysis tool for C and C++. With its depth and accuracy of analysis, Helix QAC has been the preferred static analysis tool for tightly regulated and safety-critical industries that need to meet rigorous compliance requirements.
In addition, Helix QAC is certified for functional safety compliance by TÜV-SÜD and in ISO 9001 | TickIT plus Foundation Level.
What Is Klocwork
Klocwork is a static analysis and SAST tool for C, C++ C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Kotlin that identifies software security, quality, and reliability issues to help enforce compliance with standards.
Built for enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps, Klocwork Scales to projects of any size, and seamlessly integrates with large complex environments as well as a wide range of developer tools. This has made Klocwork the preferred static code analyzer to keep development velocity high while also enforcing continuous compliance for security and quality.
Software Development Essentials for Embedded Software Compliance
An essential part of critical software development projects is ensuring that they are compliant with all the necessary coding guidelines and other functional standards. However, that process can be complex and time-consuming.
Here, we provide an overview of the key continuous compliance, coding standards, and functional safety and security standards for embedded software.
- Coding Standards Compliance
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Control, Collaboration, and Reporting
- Designed for Developers
- DevOps Ready
- Project Streams
Coding Standards Compliance: MISRA C++:2023® and Many More!
A static analysis tool helps ensure that your software is compliant with published, well-established coding standards and guidelines, such as ISO 21434, MISRA®, and CERT. In addition, Perforce static analysis tools enable you to create and customize your own rules or project coding standards for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Kotlin.
What’s more, both Helix QAC and Klocwork have been pre-qualified for use in safety-critical applications. This makes it easier for you to gain certification for industry standards, such as ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.
For more information on how Perforce static analysis tools help you to easily comply with coding standards and guidelines, review the following resources.
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Build continuous code security monitoring into your SDLC. SAST tools — such as a static analyzer — help you to ensure that secure coding practices are properly implemented and that vulnerabilities are removed at the earliest opportunity.
Klocwork identifies software security vulnerabilities to help find and fix security issues early and prove compliance.
For more information on how Klocwork helps to ensure that your software is safeguarded against security vulnerabilities, check out these resources:
- Key Safety and Cybersecurity Considerations for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Systems
- Guide to Security in Software Development
“[Perforce static analysis tools are] an indispensable part of our development process. It is inconceivable that we would ship any safety-critical software without using this tool to check our code.”
— Chief Engineer at Haldex
Control, Collaboration, and Reporting
Klocwork Project Streams provides easy management of shared code bases that have multiple variants or branches by simplifying project rule configuration, issue management, defect citing, reporting, and efficient data storage of analysis data.
Creating streams provides you with the following benefits:
If you would like to experience the benefits of Project Streams, register for a free 7-day trial of Klocwork.
- Define global or project-specific QA and security objectives and rule configurations.
- Control access permissions and approval workflows.
- View trending and metrics data for project quality and compliance.
- Produce compliance and security reports.
- Prioritize defects based on severity, location, and lifecycle.
- Use Smart Rank to assist developers in prioritizing fixes based on defect likelihood, which when combined with issue severity, provides an overall vulnerability risk score.
- Distinguish new issues from legacy code issues.
- Push backlog issues to Change Control systems.
Designed for Developers
Both Helix QAC and Klocwork are easy to set up and use as they seamlessly integrate with the rest of your development toolset. This enables shift-left defect detection and improved developer adoption. What’s more, Klocwork provides out-of-the-box support for hundreds of compilers and cross-compilers, so build integration is automatic.
As your team writes code, Helix QAC and Klocwork will provide them with detailed information on each defect and coding violation along with context-sensitive help and guidance on remediation. In addition, Klocwork’s Secure Code Warrior integration provides you with software security lessons and training tools for many common development languages.
DevOps Ready
Klocwork was designed with continuous development in mind, seamlessly integrating with DevOps process, such as continuous integration continuous testing, and continuous delivery. In addition, Klocwork’s differential analysis provides you with the shortest possible analysis times while still delivering in-depth, high-quality analysis.
For more information on how Klocwork can help enrich your DevOps processes, review these resources:
Project Streams
Klocwork Project Streams provides easy management of shared code bases that have multiple variants or branches by simplifying project rule configuration, issue management, defect citing, reporting, and efficient data storage of analysis data.
Creating streams provides you with the following benefits:
- Assign a single project rule configuration to all variants.
- Issues common to multiple variants are automatically kept in sync and only require citing once.
- Easily identify identical issues across multiple streams and issues unique to a specific stream.
- Generate reports on individual streams for compliance, functional safety, or other evidential purposes.
- More convenient organization and efficient storage of analysis data.
If you would like to experience the benefits of Project Streams, register for a free 7-day trial of Klocwork.