facebook / facebook/infer

What's the strength/weaks that comparing infer to other comercial tools, like Coverity or SonarQube C++?

Open
#1,124 1 comment 2 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
question
Dominant language
OCaml
Stars
15.7k
Forks
2.1k
Avg merge
19h 36m
Merged PRs (30d)
13

Description

I'm asking this question because, my working company already deployed Coverity (does it use GCC frontend to analysis source?), all i want to know is, Is there any strength that infer can do better than coverity?

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or implementation entry points. Start by reviewing Infer's documented C++ analysis capabilities alongside the requested Coverity and SonarQube comparison, then define the comparison criteria and an agreed documentation scope; the issue is done only when those findings and criteria are recorded.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
devtools
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
15/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.