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Recently TMC’s CEO, Rich Tehrani, interviewed the VP of Products for GrammaTech (News - Alert), Mark Zarins. The company, a spinoff of Cornell University founded by a couple professors, specializes in software development, with their niche being static analysis tools, source code analysis tools.

One of the company’s products is Code Sonar, a tool that analyzes code, identifies common programming defects. Tehrani noted that of all the various defects a programmer could make, what are the ones it detects?

Zarins said it doesn’t work with design errors, but picks up things like memory leaks or buffer overruns, “what we would consider kind of generic programming defects that would bring down the application or crash the system, it can identify a set of those.”

We have users using Code Sonar to identify problems that can lead to serious vulnerabilities too, he said, noting that buffer overruns can lend themselves to malicious attacks.

He said the company sees a lot of military and aerospace customers, defense, the kind of customers who are looking for high security products. “We’ve kind of biased our technology to find as many results as possible without overwhelming the developer with too much information,” he said, adding that “organizations using our stuff would include the Food and Drug Administration, using it to examine medical devices, and NASA using it to examine the next rover to Mars.”

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