PRQA Newsletter
Welcome to the new PRQA newsletter. We will be bringing you a mix of information and news on a regular basis and hope you will find it of interest. 
 

Developers' Challenge: are tools better than engineers?

 

Earlier this year we ran our popular 'Developers' Challenge' competition at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in San Jose. We asked developers to review a page of C code and to pit their skills against each other and also against QA·C, our automated static analysis tool.

 

Developers Challenge

 

What issues did manual code reviews find? What issues did they miss? Find out how a manual code review compares to static analysis code inspection using QA·C in our detailed white paper. 

ISO 26262
 

TUVOver the summer we have been working with TÜV SÜD Automotive, on the certification of QA·C as "fit for purpose" for use in the development of automotive systems to ISO/FDIS 26262, as well as the more general IEC 61508 standard that is used by many different safety related systems.

 

Thanks to our robust engineering processes, and PRQA's extensive track record in the automotive and other safety critical markets, the certification of QA·C 8.0 with our MISRA compliance module is now complete.

 

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PRQA enhances QA·C with deep-flow dataflow

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We've released a new version of QA·C that adds sophisticated technology to perform deep-flow dataflow analysis. QA·C 8.0 identifies critical coding issues relating to control-flow, variable state and library usage. 
  

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QA·C used to develop ADECs!

 MTU diesel engine

What's an ADEC? It's an "Advanced Diesel Engine Control" unit, and is a typical example of the control units found at the heart of wide range of high performance diesel engines manufactured by MTU.

 

MTU Friedrichshafen, one of PRQA's long term clients, has made the use of QA·C mandatory for the development of software for their diesel engine control units. "We have developed our own coding guidelines for the C language, and QA·C allows us to quickly and efficiently verify that new code meets these guidelines. The tool also enables us to set up code metrics so that we can track code implementation."

 

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Sincerely,

 

John McConnell

Marketing Director 

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MISRA WEBINAR!!
  
Tues 6th Dec
9.00PST / 12.00EST
 

Join Paul Burden, our representative for the past 10 years on the MISRA-C Working Group for this webinar on Tuesday 6th December, in which Paul will share his insights into MISRA-C and other coding standards 

 

We will be hosting a live session of this  webinar on Tuesday 6th December, so please register today!

STANDARDS UPDATE!
 

C++11 Approved! - In August our representatives on the ISOC++ Standards Committee, returned from Bloomington in US with confirmation that the C++ FDIS (Final Draft International Standard) has been unanimously approved by the ISO National Bodies. The new International Standard will be formally named ISO/IEC 14882:2011. As always, our close and proactive involvement on the Standards Committee gives our engineering teams a distinct head-start and the ability to incorporate functionality from the new standard even before it is formally published. There will be more news about C++11 enhancements in QA·C++ in our next newsletter.   

 

MISRA C3 Review - MISRA is working on an updated version of MISRA C and plan to have this available for public review early 2012. MISRA asks that anyone who is interested in providing feedback on the draft MISRC C-3 standard to register here.