Our team checks various open source projects using PVS-Studio and writes about the results of the code analysis. From time to time, we come across strange accusations of bias. We think that this...
Development of large complex projects is impossible without the use of programming techniques and tools helping to monitor the quality of the code. First, it requires a literate coding standard...
The Vangers: One for the Road video game just recently turned 20. To celebrate this event, we decided to check the source code of the project and make a review of interesting bugs found. This...
Until recently, in our articles we have positioned PVS-Studio as a tool for detecting errors in code. While we almost never regarded PVS-Studio in a security context. We will try to remedy...
A pointer references a location in memory and dereferencing a pointer refers to the lookup of the value of the memory location the pointer references. The value of a pointer is a memory address...
My name is Victoria and I have recently joined the PVS-Studio team as a C++ developer. One of the ways to get acquainted with the analyzer and its diagnostics is to check a project and sort...
Video games are among the most popular software products. Now a new game engine, Amazon Lumberyard, has joined this huge industry. The project is currently in the beta phase and still has time to...
Automated UI tests are something that even experienced programmers are wary of. At the same time, the technology for this type of tests is nothing extraordinary and in the case of Visual Studio...
PVS-Studio static analyzer is known in the C, C++, and C# worlds as a tool for detecting errors and potential vulnerabilities. However, we have few clients from the financial sector, because...
For a start, it is worth to remember what is vulnerability, and why one shouldn't trust data received from outside. The vulnerabilities are simple bugs that will make you famous all over...