PRQA Newsletter - Q4 2014

Welcome to the final newsletter for 2014, we hope you had an exciting and productive year and that 2015 will be even more prosperous. Below find some of the latest news from PRQA.

Webinar: Key Drivers impacting Return on Investment (RoI) for

Static Analysis Tools

Every investment should deliver a tangible return. The decision to purchase static analysis tools is no different. These tools are essential for both development and management to have a good understanding of the costs and benefits. Whilst some of the factors driving the RoI may be relatively easy to identify, others are less obvious. In all cases it is important to recognize the way and the degree, to which these drivers ultimately save money and/or enable the business to generate incremental revenue.

In this webinar we will:

Identify and explore key factors which have a material impact on your RoI
Examine the analysis from an opensource project and use this to demonstrate the potential financial impact

Trinity Technologies and MDS Pacific join PRQA's distributor network in Asia

We are very pleased to announce the addition of two new partners, extending our presence in the Asia region and enhancing our local sales support and technical services. MDS Pacific will cover Singapore and Malaysia and Trinity Technologies will look after Taiwan, China, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam.

Read our announcements

High Integrity C++ coding standard V4.0, one year on!

This article written by Richard Corden, reviews V4.0 over the past 12 months, identifies the rules which have been most frequently referenced, looks at some of the feedback from the user community, as well as touching on some of the ongoing discussions between the experts on the best way to use the new language that is modern C++.

Read our article

Software tools survey results

In our Q3 newsletter we provided an opportunity to participate in a short survey on software tools. We were pleased to receive over 300 respondents, highlights from the responses included:

With nearly 40%, MISRA C remains the most commonly used coding standard
82% are using software tools to catch bugs
80% of the respondents agreed that tools help them to write better code

Download the tools survey summary results

Fergus Bolger, CTO provides some insight on software deviation and the latest MISRA

Embedded Computing Design

"Controlling automotive software deviations in a MISRA compliance environment" Fergus Bolger, CTO, delves deeper into deviations, noting that both MISRA and the Japanese Automotive Manufacturers Association, JAMA, have each begun the process of setting out the conditions under which to permit specific deviations from full MISRA compliance.

Vehicle Electronics Magazine

Additional input from Fergus on the effects of the latest version of MISRA.

Safe Software in Aerospace & Defense webinar

In our October 2014 webinar, we outlined the key processes and coding standards adopted on aerospace & defense projects. We provided some practical examples where safety was compromised, described the role of the coding standards and discussed the effectiveness of verification tools.

Playback the (25 min) recording

Sincerely,

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John McConnell

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