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Recommendations are not compulsory and are provided for information purposes only.

Automated Detection

Both rules and recommendations frequently have sections that describe automated detection. These sections provide additional information on analyzers that can automatically diagnose violations of coding guidelines. Most automated analyses for the C programming language are neither sound nor complete, so the inclusion of a tool in this section typically means that the tool can diagnose some violations of this particular rule. Although the Secure Coding Validation Suite can be used to test the ability of analyzers to diagnose violations of rules from ISO/IEC TS 19761, no currently available conformance test suite can assess the ability of analyzers to diagnose violations of the rules in this

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standard. Consequently, the information in automated detection sections on the wiki may be

  • Provided by the vendors
  • Determined by CERT by informally evaluating the analyzer
  • Determined by CERT by reviewing the vendor documentation

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