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Vigilant Software announces the release of Sentry Small Business Edition, a new edition of its flagship static analysis tool for small businesses. This edition gives greater flexibility to its customers, and introduces powerful analysis tools to a new market.

Providence, RI (PRWEB) August 10, 2010

Vigilant Software announces the release of a new Small Business Edition of its flagship static analysis platform, Sentry. This edition complements Vigilant’s existing Enterprise solution, delivering advanced testing capabilities to small businesses.

With the availability of Sentry Small Business Edition, more businesses than ever will be able to reap the benefits of modern software analysis techniques. These businesses will improve the quality of their products with an affordable testing solution, and increase customer satisfaction and their reputation in the market.

Static analysis is an automated software testing approach where a program is examined by a tool that looks for dangerous events that may lead to instability, data corruption, and security holes. Static testing complements the typical manual testing approaches, such as unit testing, improving test coverage and confidence in the project under test.

Until now, similar analysis tools have been limited to the enterprise domain. Vigilant is excited to be the first software testing company to offer this capability to small businesses. This is a crucial step toward improving the quality of all software produced for the data-driven world.

Size is one of the most important attributes of a software product. It is not only the key indicator of software cost and time but also a base unit to derive other metrics for project status and software quality measurement. Size metric is used as an essential input for most of cost estimation models such as COCOMO, SLIM, SEER-SEM and Price-S.

Although source lines of code or SLOC is a widely accepted sizing metric, there is a lack of standard that enforces a consistency of what and how to count SLOC. Ensuring consistency across independent organizations in the rules used to count software cost code is often difficult to achieve. To that end, the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) has developed and released a code counting toolset called CodeCount to support sizing software code for historical data collection and reporting purposes. This toolset is a collection of tools designed to automate the collection of source code sizing information. It implements the popular code counting standards published by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and adapted by COCOMO. Logical and physical SLOC are among the metrics generated by the toolset.

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