Posted on 30 July 2015. A new report details the analysis of nearly 10 billion lines of source code through the Coverity Scan service and usage of the Synopsys Coverity Software Testing Platform.
For the report, the company analyzed code from more than 2,500 open source C/C++ projects as well as an anonymous sample of commercial projects in 2014.
Based on static analysis defect density, open source code outpaced commercial code for quality in the 2013 report, and this trend continues in 2014. Full Article
Commercial code is more compliant to security standards than open source code
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