Cppcheck
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Year of inception
- License
- GPLv3
- Programming language
- C++
- Author
- Daniel Marjamäki
- Latest release
- 2.16.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Usage and audience
Cppcheck is commonly used for code analysis. Target users for this tool are developers.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + Project is mature (10+ years)
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Cppcheck is known to work on Linux and Microsoft Windows.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a code security testing tool and static code analyzer.