The company announced Klocwork Insight Pro, a new suite of developer tools aimed at maintaining high velocity throughout the software development process. Built upon Klocwork’s proven source code analysis technology, Klocwork Insight Pro introduces three new tools designed to allow development organizations to achieve greater iteration velocity while reducing the risk of bugs.

Continuous static analysis

Klocwork Insight Pro provides continuous static analysis that detects critical defects and security vulnerabilities at the developer desktop, as code is being written. This on the fly analysis provides developers with immediate visibility into errors being made, or vulnerabilities being left open. With a no click usability model, attention to code quality and security becomes a natural part of every developer’s editing process, ensuring the best code possible at the earliest stage in the development process.

Collaborative peer code reviews

Klocwork Insight Pro changes the model of traditional, in person or scheduled code reviews with a collaborative, peer-based tool that facilitates simple pre and post check-in reviews. Integrated with popular configuration management environments and Klocwork’s static analysis engine, code reviews are conducted asynchronously over the web with Klocwork Insight Pro. Through a customizable RSS feed, developers are notified of code that is ready for review and are able to quickly and easily identify code changes, take part in threaded discussions around those changes, assign actions, and review potential defects.

Automated code refactoring

Considered a development best practice and embraced by advocates of all modern development methods, code refactoring is an integral part of the software development process. With Klocwork Insight Pro, the complex task of refactoring is simplified. Using automated tools, developers can modify their code towards overall patterns to achieve clean, easy to understand, and more maintainable code designs without changing the code’s function in any way.

Klocwork Insight Pro will be generally available December 2009. More details at
the company site.