> -----Original Message-----
> From: safety-critical-request@xxxxxx 
> [mailto:safety-critical-request@xxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Legg
> Sent: 01 October 2007 16:39
> To: safety-critical@xxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [sc] Tools for source code validation
> 
> There are also some seriously *bad* tools out there.
> But I wouldn't want to be sued.
> Does anybody else have the moral courage to say which tools 
> are particularly "unsuitable"?
> 

There are some real problems here.  There are some tool vendors whose
licence agreements /prohibit/ publication of any user-experience data.
Someone I know was tasked by his country's military authorities with
evaluating an analysis tool, found significant defects but was prevented
from publishing a report on them.

[FWIW we are /delighted/ to see 3rd party user-experience of SPARK!]




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