Cambridge Consultants turns to Coverity for software integrity

Created by three Cambridge graduates in 1960, Cambridge Consultants has grown into a leading technology business, renowned worldwide for its ability to solve technical problems and provide innovative, practical solutions to commercial issues. With a team of over 300 engineers, designers, scientists and consultants and offices in the United Kingdom (Cambridge) and United States (Boston),  the company serves a worldwide client list across industries including medical technology, transport, energy, cleantech and wireless communications. They are the development partner of choice to many leading blue chip companies as well as the virtual development team for ambitious start up companies.

Cambridge Consultants  is using Coverity’s solution to automate code testing in order to identify and eliminate critical defects in software code during the development process. By surfacing and resolving software issues early in the development process, Coverity will play a critical role in enabling Cambridge Consultants’ to deliver innovative, competitive, high quality products to market quickly.

 “The decision to use Coverity’s solution is driven by our need to achieve the highest levels of software quality in the rapid development timescales that our clients require,” states Mark Wilson from Cambridge Consultants. “Automated code testing via static analysis allows us to reduce timescales by identifying issues early in the development cycle. Our decision to deploy Coverity Static Analysis demonstrates our commitment to delivering the highest quality products to our customers and Coverity’s leading position in the market. Using Coverity is also key to our successful business growth; we obtain return customers when we deliver successful product developments.”

Cambridge Consultants underwent an extensive evaluation period to find the best static analysis solution for its business needs. The top functional requirements were a technology that could generate a high hit-rate in detecting the most critical software bugs and low false-positive rates. Coverity’s solution was best able to meet these requirements over other tools in the market and was selected as the solution of choice. Other reasons for choosing Coverity’s technology were the solution’s ease of use and flexibility. “Coverity augments our existing software quality systems and is easily integrated with them. 

We get as close to continuous integration and test as possible based on a virtual machine environment,” explains Mark. “Further, we adapt our processes to fit our client’s needs. The development process that we follow is based on the V-model process, augmented with aspects of agile development where appropriate. It’s not difficult to change our process to address customer requirements when we have a reliable continuous integration system, with Coverity Static Analysis to help deliver software integrity.”

More information at www.coverity.com and www.cambridgeconsultants.com