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Private

Key people
  
Brian Pierce, CEO

Website
  
www.klocwork.com

Parent organization
  
Rogue Wave Software

Industry
  
Products
  
Klocwork

Founded
  
2001

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Headquarters
  
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

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Klocwork is a software company with headquarters in Burlington, MA and R&D based in Ottawa, ON, Canada. Klocwork was founded in 2001 as a spin-out of Nortel Networks and has over 1,000 customers who use its software development tools. Klocwork says their tool help "developers create more secure and reliable software by analyzing source code on-the-fly, simplifying peer code reviews, and extending the life of complex software."

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Klocwork desktop static analysis demo


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Klocwork is a static code analysis tool used to identify security, safety and reliability issues in C, C++, Java and C# code. The product includes numerous desktop plug-ins for developers, metrics and reporting.

History

Originally Klocwork’s technology was developed to address requirements for large-scale source code analysis to optimize software architecture for C code inside Nortel Networks and spun out in 2001. Its investors are Firstmark Capital, USVP, and Mobius Ventures. The company has been awarded the 2007 InfoWorld Technology of Year and has made the SD Times 100 List every year since 2005.

In January 2012, Klocwork Insight 9.5 was released. It provides on-the-fly static analysis in Visual Studio, like a word processor does with spelling mistakes.

In March 2012, Klocwork Insight received the Certificate of CWE Compatibility from The MITRE Corporation's Common Weakness Enumeration Program.

In September 2012, Klocwork became a member of the GENIVI Alliance and renewed again in 2014.

In May 2013, Klocwork Cahoots was launched.

In September 2013, Klocwork received ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 certifications.

In January 2014, the company was acquired by Rogue Wave Software.

In May 2014, Klocwork won the Red Herring Top 100 North America Award.

References

Klocwork Wikipedia


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