OVERVIEW

CODING STANDARDS

Coding standards deliver real value as an integral step toward building quality, a competitive advantage, into software up-front to prevent problems downstream. Yes, the “prevention beats correction” notion resonates well all the way from the boardroom to the coder.

Virtually everything made on the planet benefits from standards and it’s increasingly clear that software does too. More than ever, all sorts of developers recognize that adopting coding standards—arguably once customary only within the embedded community—makes sense and does not stifle creativity.

The term "coding standard" is sometimes confusingly mixed with "style guide". Stylistic issues such as code layout and naming conventions are just a very small part of a coding standard and usually are very project-specific.

PRQA pioneered the use of static analysis technology to automatically enforce coding standards. Coding standards serve as repositories of best practices. They’re the collaborative efforts of the best minds out there, filled with insight and are recognized as an integral step toward building high·integrity, quality software.

We enforce the well-known industry standards adopted today and provide custom coding standards to some of the largest firms on the planet. Our own HIGH·INTEGRITY C++ coding standard is considered one of the best out there.

Best of all, our underlying technologies along with rich domain expertise give us the unique competitive advantage to quickly enforce virtually any standard that emerges. We own our language parsing engines—no need to rely on third parties.

PRQA is recognized worldwide as “the coding standard experts” by leading software developers, industry experts, and standards bodies. We are the dominant player in the growing CSE (coding standard enforcement) space.

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