Red Lizard SoftwareGoanna Software Pty Ltd, doing business as Red Lizard Software, Bloomberg, 2021 was a privately held software vendor for static analysis tools. The company was founded in 2009 as a spinout from the Australia research centre NICTA. It was headquartered in Sydney, Australia. In December 2015, the company was acquired by SynopsysSynopsys Bolsters Software Integrity Platform with Acquisition of Static Code Analysis Vendor Goanna Software, December 2015 and merged into the Coverity product line.
Products Goanna was a static analysis tool for C and C++ source code. It provided a command line version ("Goanna Central") as well as an integration into Eclipse or Visual Studio called "Goanna Studio". Goanna was based on model checking techniques and performs an automated semantics code analysis for detecting quality as well as security software bugs.Ansgar Fehnker, Joerg Brauer, Ralf Huuck, Sean Seefried. Goanna: Syntactic Software Model Checking. 6th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA), Seoul, Korea, 20–23 October 2008 .Ansgar Fehnker, Ralf Huuck, Patrick Jayet, Michel Lussenburg and Felix Rauch. Model Checking Software at Compile Time. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE & IFIP International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, Shanghai, China, 6–8 June 2007
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