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COMPARISON Helix QAC and Klocwork: Which One Is Right For You? Static Code Analyzers Comparison Guide

Perforce’s static code analyzers — Helix QAC and Klocwork — have been trusted for over 30 years to deliver the most accurate and precise results to mission-critical project teams across a variety of industries.

However, depending on your project, one of our software development tools may better meet your needs. Here, we breakdown both tools in order to help you decide which one is right for you.

Helix QAC: Best For Functional Klocwork: Best For Developer Safety Compliance Productivity, SAST, and DevOps

For over 30 years, Helix QAC has been the trusted static code Klocwork SAST and SAQT for , C++, C#, and Java identifies analyzer for C and C++ programming languages. With its depth software security, quality, and reliability issues and ensures and accuracy of analysis, Helix QAC has been the preferred compliance to a broad spectrum of recognized standards. static code analyzer in tightly regulated and safety-critical Built for enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps, Klocwork industries that need to meet rigorous compliance requirements. scales to projects of any size, integrates with large complex Often, this involves verifying compliance with coding standards environments, a wide range of developer tools, and provides — such as MISRA and AUTOSAR — and functional safety control, collaboration, and reporting for the entire enterprise. standards, such as ISO 26262. This has made Klocwork the preferred static analyzer that keeps development velocity high while enforcing continuous Helix QAC is certified for functional safety compliance by SGS- compliance for security and quality. TÜV, including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, EN 50128, IEC 60880, and IEC 62304. In addition, it is also certified in ISO 9001 | Klocwork is certified for functional safety compliance by TÜV- TickIT plus Foundation level, which is one of the most widely SÜD, including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, IEC 62304, and adopted standards to ensure that your requirements are not EN 50128. only met but exceeded as well.

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HELIX QAC KLOCWORK

• Ensures compliant, safe, and reliable code. • Ensures safe, secure, and quality code.

• Makes compliance easy. • Delivers optimal shift-left analysis to improve the speed

• Teaches developers best practices, which then improves of defect detection, remediation, and reducing rework. the quality of their code. • Supports Agile development and Continuous Integration

• Reduces code rework. /Continuous Delivery.

• Accelerates release cycle. • Increases developer productivity through teaching best practices and committing defect free code. • Monitors, manages, reports, and tracks projects across the enterprise.

• Accelerates development and delivery cycles.

• Boasts high accuracy and precision — finds more problems with fewer false positives.

KEY FEATURES

HELIX QAC KLOCWORK

• Comprehensive set of fine-grained diagnostics. • Produces fast desktop and CI analysis results with

• Compliance modules for key C/C++ coding standards. Differential Analysis.

• Accuracy and precision — finds more problems with • Simplifies the static analysis automation process and fewer false positives. pipelines.

• Customizable to your own coding rules. • Features the capability of true SAST for more complex programming languages, like C and C++. • Project reporting, including pre-packaged standards compliance reports, code quality trends, and metrics. • Complements existing DevOps and DevSecOps practices. • Support for analysis both at the developer desktop and server / CI pipelines. • Analyze within containers, on cloud build systems, and provisioned instances. • Tight integration with developer toolchain, which includes IDEs, VCS, CI and ALM tools. • Provides control, collaboration, and reporting for projects. • Integrates with architectural visualization and enforcement tools, like Structure 101. • Supports hundreds of compilers and cross compilers.

• Supports wide range of coding standards with industry • Provides detailed feedback and help to the developers leading coverage for, MISRA C, MISRA C++, JSF C++, within their IDEs, and links to various internationally AUTOSAR C++14, CERT C and CERT C++. recognized security standards.

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• Enables tight integration with developer toolchain, including IDEs, VCS, CI and ALM tools.

• Integrates with architectural visualization and

enforcement tools, like Structure 101.

• Integrates with build acceleration tools like IncrediBuild. • Supports wide range of coding standards.

KEY DIFFERENTIATORS

HELIX QAC KLOCWORK

• Defacto choice for MISRA compliance due to high rule • CI/CD Differential/Incremental Analysis — “Full-Project” coverage and analysis depth. Incremental Analysis.

• Very high accuracy (defects found per defects present) • Desktop on-the-fly analysis providing analysis feedback in and precision (true positives per defects found). real time.

• Centralized dashboard, providing project quality and • Advanced defect reporting and prioritization capabilities metrics trend reporting. (filtering by severity, location, standards, etc.).

• Rule configuration, baselines and suppressions • Security and quality standards coverage and compliance.

synchronized across the entire team. • Development toolset integrations.

• Certified for functional safety compliance by SGS-TÜV, • Centralized management of project rule requirements and including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, EN 50128, IEC 60880, workflow permissions. and IEC 62304. • Customer checker studio for easy extensibility. • Certified in ISO 9001 | TickIT plus Foundation Level. • Enterprise scalability — supports large codebases (10M+ LOC) and thousands of files and teams of hundreds of developers.

• Certified for functional safety compliance by TÜV-SÜD, including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, IEC 62304, EEN 50128.

TRY HELIX QAC TRY KLOCWORK

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