Software quality and reliability, whilst always having been important, have been driven to the top of the requirements list in recent times by the high profile software failures and breaches that we read about in the national press on a weekly basis. Security vulnerabilities in particular have become of paramount concern with the rapid increase in the number of software hackers over the last few years.
The benefits of static code analysis in finding residual programming errors, above and beyond the checks made by the compiler, are well known.
CodeHealer is an efficient and powerful source code analysis and verification tool that will help find and fix a significant number of programming bugs, mistakes and inconsistencies in Delphi programs before they are released. The information provided by CodeHealer will also help developers understand and improve existing code that they have not written. This is especially helpful for corporate developers who take over management of legacy applications.
Static analysis tools such as LINT and its derivatives have been available for many years, and their findings well documented. CodeHealer takes those tools a significant step forward, both in power and usability.