Editor’s Note: In an excerpt from their book Embedded System Security, the authors assess the role of C and C++ coding standards and how compliance leads to more secure code. Most safety and quality ...

Electronic Design’s Bill Wong talked with the Barr Group’s Andrew Girson about how the organization champions coding standards and safe software practices through guidance, advocacy, and training of ...

Some disputes within the development community seem to be perennial, popping up every so often like this year's crop of thistles (forgive the analogy; I live in farming country). I'm not talking about ...

October 1, 2014—While conducting the research that produced The CERT® Oracle® Coding Standard for Java, the Secure Coding Team in the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie ...

Application size and complexity has compounded significantly over the last decade. Take the automotive sector as an example. According to The New York Times, 20 years ago, the average car had a ...

Web standards advocates are declaring victory in their battle over browsers, but as they turn up the heat on their next adversary it's clear that their longstanding crusade on behalf of elegant design ...

Every programming language has its own set of stylistic conventions that are meant to promote readability. It is a very important aspect of software development that is heavily stressed by many ...

The vast majority of developers feel satisfied working with Go, but maintaining consistent coding standards across teams has been a challenge, according to the latest Go developer survey. Although ...