| Coverity has a static analysis tool (Prevent) which is similar to Klocwork. | |
| They run their tool on the Python source code (SVN head) on a daily basis. | |
| The results are available at: | |
| http://scan.coverity.com/ | |
| About 20 people have access to the analysis reports. Other | |
| people can be added by request. | |
| Prevent was first run on the Python 2.5 source code in March 2006. | |
| There were originally about 100 defects reported. Some of these | |
| were false positives. Over 70 issues were uncovered. | |
| Each warning has a unique id and comments that can be made on it. | |
| When checking in changes due to a warning, the unique id | |
| as reported by the tool was added to the SVN commit message. | |
| False positives were annotated so that the comments can | |
| be reviewed and reversed if the analysis was incorrect. | |
| Contact python-dev@python.org for more information. |