Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security, and governance at scale along the development lifecycle, announced the availability of the latest version of its static analysis tools, offering improved security and greater flexibility in CI/CD processes for safety-critical development projects.

Perforce static analysis engines ensure software quality, safety and security, and offer continuous compliance throughout the development process by alerting developers to defects, vulnerabilities and standards rule violations as the code is being written.

With the latest release, Perforce now offers CI/CD integration capabilities, providing maximum flexibility for modern development practices. This includes the ability to produce delta analysis results for change sets as part of a new feature branch commit, merge request or pull request, and then reporting of these results through Perforce Validate, the continuous security and code compliance platform that provides a centralized store of Perforce static analysis data for codebases across the organization, making peer reviews and deviation approvals simple and efficient. Support also extends to analysis jobs running in cloud-based CI pipelines, containerized build tasks and integration into all manner of different CI/CD platforms via the built-in Web API, allowing development teams to find and fix defects earlier in the development lifecycle and go to market faster.

Customers also get enhanced and simplified security with the new Validate authentication improvements, including support for integration of identity providers with Validate using SAML and OIDC, allowing IT teams to manage users and groups more efficiently, and making it more convenient for users.

“We’re committed to evolving our tools with our customers’ needs,” said Steve Howard, Director of Product Management for Static Analysis at Perforce. “As we add more powerful, flexible analysis functionalities and security authentication, we’re set up to grow with a development pipeline the modern world requires, and customers expect.”

“Tools, platforms and workflows common already within the enterprise software development space are steadily cross-pollinating into the traditionally more reserved embedded software development space,” said Stephen Feloney, Vice President of Product Management at Perforce. “And we are right there now to meet them, where they are, integrated into the same platforms and tools, making static analysis easier to use and the whole process more efficient and more effective.”