Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security, and governance at scale along the development lifecycle, announced the availability of the latest version of its static analysis tools with the latest release, providing enhanced security and maximum CI/CD process flexibility for safety-critical development projects.
Perforce static analysis engines ensure software quality, safety and security, and offer continuous compliance throughout the development process by alerting developers to defects, vulnerabilities and standards rule violations as the code is being written.
Adoption of shift-left strategies — processes and tooling to automate testing and security scanning earlier in the CI/CD pipeline — is growing. According to the 2024 State of Automotive Development Report by Perforce, 59% of embedded software professionals have adopted or are actively implementing shift-left practices. Shifting to the left of the linear development timeline makes fixing errors more manageable, improves product quality, increases efficiency, ensures compliance to standards, and reduces time-to-market. Using static analysis tools can empower development teams to adopt a shift-left methodology faster, more accurately, and at scale.
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With the latest release, Perforce now offers market-leading CI/CD integration capabilities, providing maximum flexibility for modern development practices. This includes the ability to produce delta analysis results for change sets as part of a new feature branch commit, merge request or pull request, and then reporting of these results through Perforce Validate, the continuous security and code compliance platform that provides a centralized store of Perforce static analysis data for codebases across the organization, making peer reviews and deviation approvals simple and efficient. Support also extends to analysis jobs running in cloud-based CI pipelines, containerized build tasks and integration into all manner of different CI/CD platforms via the built-in Web API, allowing development teams to find and fix defects earlier in the development lifecycle and go to market faster.
Customers also get enhanced and simplified security with the new Validate authentication improvements, including support for integration of identity providers with Validate using SAML and OIDC, allowing IT teams to manage users and groups more efficiently, and making it more convenient for users.
SOURCE: PRNewswire