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Re: Coverity scan.

 

Great stuff, I'm already finding genuine (though rarely tripped) problems.
On the embarrassing side, my code has a defect rate of about 2 per 1000
lines.

Bye-bye evenings - looks like I have some code to fix.

- Cirilo


On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Mark Roszko was kind enough to set up a Coverity scan for KiCad at
> https://scan.coverity.com/projects/3606?tab=analysis_settings.  Thank
> you Mark.  I would at least like my lead developers to sign up and have
> Mark give you access to see the scan results.  If you see a high
> severity issue that is in your code, please make sure it's not a false
> positive and tag it as such or fix it if the issue is legitemate.  At
> the very least, we should shoot for no high severity issues.  Obviously,
> zero issues of any severity should be the goal but we have to start
> somewhere.
>
> On the whole, the KiCad error rate is not as bad as I thought it might
> be.  We are currently at 1.52 per 1000 lines of code.  The average for
> open source projects larger than 1M lines of code is 0.65.  Let's see if
> we can do better than average.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
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