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As of 9/28/2018, the CERT manifest files are now available for use by static analysis tool developers to test their coverage of (some of the) CERT Secure Coding Rules for C, using many of 61,387 test cases in the Juliet test suite v1.2.
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Robert Seacord
Try to post comments on leaf nodes, or as close as possible. If you have a comment about a specific rule or recommendation, for example, please post a comment on that page. If you think that we should add a new rule or recommendation to a particular section, please post a comment on the section heading.
Thanks.