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General news
February 12, 2014
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Why software maintenance is a great insurance

Protecting yourself against the unexpected has received a mixed press of late. Nobody likes to feel they are paying over the odds for something that […]

Communication
January 16, 2014
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Stephen Kellett

When things go wrong

Sometimes you do things with the best of intentions and it all goes wrong. This week has been like that. Preamble It all started out […]

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64 bit C++ software tool Beta Tests are complete.

We recently closed the beta tests for the 64 bit versions of C++ Coverage Validator, C++ Memory Validator, C++ Performance Validator and C++ Thread Validator. […]

General news
December 12, 2013
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New news blog

Hi, Historically we haven’t been too great at communicating news about Software Verification to you all. Proof of the pudding is that the previous news […]

Development Porting to Win64
December 5, 2013
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Stephen Kellett

64 bit tools leaving beta this month

For those of you keeping a keen eye on the version numbers of the various C++ 64 bit betas we have will have noticed that […]

Development
June 26, 2013
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Why symbols don’t load – the DbgHelp search path

The problem One of the problems with using DbgHelp.dll to read the symbols for your Visual Studio application is that sometimes your symbols do not […]

Coverage
May 9, 2013
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Stephen Kellett

How to compare two code coverage sessions?

Recently we’ve had a flurry of customers wanting the ability to compare the code coverage of their application. This sounded like a good idea so […]

Development
May 9, 2013
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Stephen Kellett

New environment variable dialog

We recently had some feedback from customers telling us that they were dealing with legacy applications that were configured using large numbers of environment variables […]

Announcements
December 7, 2012
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Stephen Kellett

Problems with slow shutdown, slow install

There is a problem with recent versions of our software released prior to 5 December 2012. Problem description The problem is that some people will […]

Coverage
August 3, 2012
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Stephen Kellett

UX Improvements for Coverage Validator

We recently released new versions of the Coverage Validator tools for all languages. The main reason for this release was to make the tools more […]

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