The Coverity Development Testing Platform, which was released last year, allows code and unit test analysis and policy management for Java, C# and C/C + +. The new version of the code analysis was expanded for all supported programming languages.

The development testing company is now further expanding the platform on a trial-basis to the cloud by offering developers free cloud based development testing to help find and fix critical quality and security defects in their code, as they write it.

The cloud-based trial program offers developers to upload Java, C# and C/C++ source code to Coverity’s secure cloud-testing platform, where the Coverity platform analyzes the code and highlights high-impact defects, such as resource leaks, memory corruptions and security vulnerabilities. Developers can also view real defects and fixes of other developers for a range of open source software projects and compare the fixes of specific defects.

“We are excited to offer this new, easy way for the developer community to test out the highly effective Coverity platform,” said Anthony Bettencourt, chairman and chief executive officer for Coverity. “This cloud-based trial removes any barriers of entry for developers interested in test driving our platform and backs Coverity’s commitment to helping more developers write bug-free, secure software code.”

Build quality and security testing in the cloud

With the increased visibility of software defects and the impact they can have on our day-to-day lives, software testing will play a more important role than ever before and will have a critical role in DevOps in 2014. Thus, testing as part of the software development process to make the application cloud-ready becomes imperative.

The traditional unit test is, without doubt, a valuable test instrument. However, it has some deficiencies as there is a lack of focus on critical sections of code and the overall potential impact of code changes. In contrast, development testing in the cloud captures risk areas in the program code sufficiently–and provides intelligent information about code changes, without slowing down the development of it. It helps to control the risks associated with program code changes and shortens the time before it leaves development.

The Coverity test software suite combines code analysis with unit-test analysis and management of coding rules. The Coverity Development Testing Platform features 21 new and improved C # analysis algorithms for accurate fault detection, such as resource leaks, concurrency problems, or null references,  new and expanded coverage of security vulnerabilities in Java applications with the OWASP Top 10 (Open Web Application Security Project) and the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), 17 new and improved analysis algorithms for Java and C/C+ + code to track problems that could lead to a crash, inaccurate calculation or unpredictable behavior and integration with SonarQube.

Coverity’s platform now also supports the Clang compiler, whose popularity in the development of mobile and web applications continues to grow. Clang compiler is commonly used in the development of Objective-C and C/C++ software.