Alliance analyses software structures

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team May 9, 2007

Structural analysis and architectural control product is now available for use with Prevent SQS for Java, Coverity's latest software quality system.

Coverity and Headway Software have announced a technology partnership to advance and commercialise structural analysis and architectural control technologies.

By leveraging Coverity's new Software DNA mapping technology and its own best-in-class structural analysis and architectural control technology, Headway will provide products that produce high fidelity architectural diagrams, enabling its customers to build and maintain software of the highest architectural integrity.

Structure101, Headway's flagship structural analysis and architectural control product, is immediately available for use with Prevent SQS for Java, Coverity's new software quality system.

Structure101 provides control of Java software architecture through dependency management and analysis.

Future versions of the product will support C and C++.

"In our view, a sound architecture is a pre-requisite for quality software, and we believe Headway provides the best solutions and the best understanding of this domain", said Ben Chelf, CTO of Coverity.

"With Coverity's unique Software DNA technology, I'm confident that we can work with Headway to deliver C, C++ and Java architectural products that will be market leaders and raise the awareness of the value of architectural control".

"Together with Coverity, we can help customers solve one of the biggest problems in software development projects - code that is too complex for people to understand", said Chris Chedgey, CEO of Headway Software.

"Customers wanting the very best architectural control and software quality control can now be confident that Headway and Coverity solutions can be tightly integrated together".

Customers can use both Coverity Prevent SQS and Structure101 from a single repository, easily adding complete source code analysis to create an accurate map of a project's software DNA, identify defects and security vulnerabilities, manage and fix software defects, and control structural complexity.

Structure101 for Java is immediately available from both Headway Software and Coverity.

Availability of Structure101 for C/C++ will be announced shortly.