32 | Automated Testing
When these tools are put directly fix them, which is essential for us to
into the developers’ hands, fewer meet the MISRA standards to which
coding vulnerabilities make it into the we work. Overall, I’d say Klocwork
code stream, leading to more secure has helped us bring stability to our
code, and greater efficiencies and system.”
focus during peer code reviews and As well as bringing a greater level
testing. of quality to their software, Schiller
also recognise the potential for
Static code analysis in action speeding up the testing phase of their
International medical device development cycle. “We see static
manufacturer, Schiller, is an example code analysis as an integral part of
of one company using static analysis our software development set-up
in software testing for embedded at Schiller, a process we are working
Government and industry
systems effectively. towards automating as far as possible.
body regulation is having
Software developers at Schiller work We are carrying out regular walk-
on both embedded (programmed throughs and code reviews as we get
an increasing role in
using C) and windows-based software used to working with Klocwork, and
dictating how software
(primarily in C++ and Java). Schiller I can see that the product is going to
must be developed for
uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for help us reduce our development time
use within industries
their Windows based software, while in future.”
its embedded software runs on Linux,
including medical device
using Eclipse. Regulation
manufacturing. Rules
Rene Schöps, head of software Software is an integral part of
dictated by The European systems research and development everything we do now – drive a car,
Parliament and the
at Schiller, has its developers using make a phone call, turn on the TV,
Klocwork static code analysis to run and get on an airplane. The rush
Medicines and healthcare
analysis checks on their code before for technological solutions and
products Regulatory
checking it in. Building each new piece conveniences combined with the
Agency (MHRA) are of software from scratch, Schiller’s competitive nature of our society
having an increasingly
team have entered the test phase of ensures products are brought to
important role to play in
an embedded project that has been market quickly, and medical device
running since 2003, containing over manufacturing is no different.
the production of medical
600,000 lines of code that is due to be Government and industry body
devices in the UK and released in this summer. regulation is having an increasing
Europe.
Schöps explained, “The analysis has role in dictating how software
helped us identify these errors and must be developed for use within
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