Helix QAC, formerly QA·C is a commercial

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software tool produced by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software vendor

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. QAC means Quality Assurance and Control. The software was originally developed in 1986 by UK-based

Programming Research Limited Programming Research Limited (PRQA) was a United Kingdom-based developer of code quality management software for embedded software, which included the static program analysis tools QA·C and QA·C++, now known as Helix QAC. It created the High In ...

(PRQA) for the

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. Perforce acquired PRQA in May 2018. Helix QAC was used to make the C

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measurements given in the book ''Safer C'' by Les Hatton. HeliX QAC can be used for quality assurance of C source code and checking the code for conformance to coding guidelines such as

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. Other functionality includes the ability to calculate code

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s for projects with large code-bases. The tools operate through an

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(IDE) designed to help maintain and understand old and new code using detailed cross references and a variety of graphical views. The tools can be used with a command line interface, and graphical IDE can be called to display the result.

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Evaluating the relation between coding standard violations and faults within and across versions
{{DEFAULTSORT:Qa-C History of computing in the United Kingdom Static program analysis tools

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