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This a list of Code Quality tools that integrate with C. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with C. View the products that work with C in the table below.
What are Code Quality Tools for C?
Code quality tools help development teams analyze, maintain, and improve the reliability, readability, and security of source code. They automatically scan codebases to detect bugs, vulnerabilities, code smells, and deviations from coding standards. The tools often provide actionable feedback, metrics, and reports to guide refactoring and best practices. Many code quality tools integrate with IDEs, version control systems, and CI/CD pipelines for continuous assessment. By improving code consistency and reducing technical debt, code quality tools support faster development and more stable software. Compare and read user reviews of the best Code Quality tools for C currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Kiuwan Code Security
Kiuwan
Kiuwan is an end-to-end application security platform that integrates seamlessly into your development process. Our toolset includes Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), Software Governance and Code Quality, empowering your team to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities. Integrating into your CI/CD pipeline, Kiuwan enables early detection and remediation of security issues. Kiuwan supports strict compliance with industry standards including OWASP, CWE, MISRA, NIST, PCI DSS, and CERT, among others. ✅ Large language support: 30+ programming languages. ✅ Detailed action plans: Prioritize remediation with tailored action plans. ✅ Code Security: Seamless Static Application Security Testing (SAST) integration. ✅ Insights: On-demand or continuous scanning Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to help reduce third-party threats. ✅ One-click Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation Code Smarter. Secure Faster. Ship Sooner. -
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CppDepend
CoderGears
CppDepend is a comprehensive code analysis tool for C and C++ languages, tailored to assist developers in maintaining complex code bases. It offers a broad spectrum of features for ensuring code quality, including static code analysis, which is pivotal in identifying potential code issues such as memory leaks, inefficient algorithms, and deviations from coding standards. A key aspect of CppDepend is its support for widely recognized coding standards like Misra, CWE, CERT, and Autosar. These standards are crucial in various industries, particularly in developing reliable and safe software for automotive, embedded, and high-reliability systems. By aligning with these standards, CppDepend helps in ensuring that the code complies with industry-specific safety and reliability requirements. The tool's integration with popular development environments and its compatibility with continuous integration workflows make it an invaluable asset in agile development. -
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SonarQube Server
SonarSource
SonarQube Server is a self-managed solution for continuous code quality inspection that helps development teams identify and fix bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells in real-time. It provides automated static code analysis for a variety of programming languages, ensuring the highest quality and security standards are maintained throughout the development lifecycle. SonarQube Server integrates seamlessly with existing CI/CD pipelines, offering flexibility for on-premise or cloud-based deployment. With advanced reporting features, it helps teams manage technical debt, track improvements, and enforce coding standards. SonarQube Server is ideal for organizations seeking full control over their code quality and security without compromising on performance. -
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CodeScene
CodeScene
CodeScene is a code analysis, visualization, and reporting tool. Cross reference contextual factors such as code quality, team dynamics, and delivery output to get actionable insights to effectively reduce technical debt and deliver better code quality. We enable software development teams to make confident, data-driven decisions that fuel performance and developer productivity. Supporting 28+ programming languages, CodeScene also offers an automated integration with GitHub, BitBucket, Azure DevOps or GitLab pull requests to incorporate the analysis results into existing delivery workflows. Automate your code reviews, get early warnings and recommendations about complex code before merging it to the main branch and set quality gates to trigger in case your code health declines.Starting Price: €18 per active author/month -
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Codacy
Codacy
Codacy is a comprehensive platform for code quality and security that helps development teams build secure, maintainable, and compliant software. It integrates across the entire development lifecycle, from IDE to production, providing real-time feedback and automated checks. Codacy analyzes code repositories, enforces quality standards, and detects vulnerabilities before deployment. With AI Guardrails, it also protects against risks introduced by AI-generated code. The platform centralizes rules and policies, ensuring consistency across teams and projects. Developers benefit from automated pull request checks, test coverage tracking, and actionable insights. Overall, Codacy enables faster development without compromising security or code quality.Starting Price: $21/user/month -
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Codecov
Codecov
Develop healthier code. Improve your code review workflow and quality. Codecov provides highly integrated tools to group, merge, archive, and compare coverage reports. Free for open source. Plans starting at $10/user per month. Ruby, Python, C++, Javascript, and more. Plug and play into any CI product and workflow. No setup required. Automatic report merging for all CI and languages into a single report. Get custom statuses on any group of coverage metrics. Review coverage reports by project, folder and type test (unit tests vs integration tests). Detailed report commented directly into your pull request. Codecov is SOC 2 Type II certified, which means a third-party audits and attests to our practices to secure our systems and your data.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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Typemock
Typemock
The easiest way to unit test. Write tests without changing your code! Even legacy code. Static methods, private methods, non-virtual methods, out parameters and even members and fields. Our professional edition is free for developers around the world. We also have paid support package. Improve your code integrity and deliver quality code. Fake entire object models with a single statement. Mock statics, private, constructors, events, linq, ref args, live, future, static constructors. Our suggest feature creates automated test suggestions suitable for your code. Our smart runner will run only your impact tests and get you super fast feedback. Our coverage feature displays your code coverage in your editor while you code.Starting Price: $479 per license per year -
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Devel::Cover
metacpan
This module provides code coverage metrics for Perl. Code coverage metrics describe how thoroughly tests exercise code. By using Devel::Cover you can discover areas of code not exercised by your tests and determine which tests to create to increase coverage. Code coverage can be considered an indirect measure of quality. Devel::Cover is now quite stable and provides many of the features to be expected in a useful coverage tool. Statement, branch, condition, subroutine, and pod coverage information is reported. Statement and subroutine coverage data should be accurate. Branch and condition coverage data should be mostly accurate too, although not always what one might initially expect. Pod coverage comes from Pod::Coverage. If Pod::Coverage::CountParents is available it will be used instead.Starting Price: Free -
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PullRequest
HackerOne
Get on-demand code reviews from vetted, expert engineers enhanced by AI. Add senior engineers to your team every time you open a pull request. Ship better, more secure code faster with AI-assisted code reviews. Whether you're a development team of 5 or 5,000, PullRequest will supercharge your existing code review process and adapt to your needs. Our reviewers will help your team catch security vulnerabilities, find hidden bugs, and fix performance issues before they reach production. All of this is done within your existing tools. Expert human reviewers enhanced by an AI analysis to pinpoint high-risk security hotspots. Intelligent static analysis combining open source tools and proprietary AI shown to reviewers for deeper insights. Save your senior staff some time. Make meaningful progress resolving issues and improving code while other members of your team are busy building.Starting Price: $129 per month -
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SonarQube Cloud
SonarSource
Maximize your throughput and only release clean code SonarQube Cloud (formerly SonarCloud) automatically analyzes branches and decorates pull requests. Catch tricky bugs to prevent undefined behavior from impacting end-users. Fix vulnerabilities that compromise your app, and learn AppSec along the way with Security Hotspots. With just a few clicks you're up and running right where your code lives. Immediate access to the latest features and enhancements. Project dashboards keep teams and stakeholders informed on code quality and releasability. Display project badges and show your communities you're all about awesome. Code Quality and Code Security is a concern for your entire stack, from front-end to back-end. That’s why we cover 24 languages including Python, Java, C++, and many others. Transparency makes sense and that's why the trend is growing. Come join the fun, it's entirely free for open-source projects! -
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Helix QAC
Perforce
For over 30 years, Helix QAC has been the trusted static code analyzer for C and C++ programming languages. With its depth and accuracy of analysis, Helix QAC has been the preferred static code analyzer in tightly regulated and safety-critical industries that need to meet rigorous compliance requirements. Often, this involves verifying compliance with coding standards, such as MISRA and AUTOSAR, and functional safety standards, such as ISO 26262. Helix QAC is certified for functional safety compliance by TÜV-SÜD, including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, EN 50128, IEC 60880, and IEC 62304. In addition, it is also certified in ISO 9001 | TickIT plus Foundation Level, which is one of the most widely adopted standards to ensure that your requirements are not only met but exceeded as well. Prioritize coding issues based on the severity of risk. Helix QAC helps you to target the most critical defects using filters, suppressions, and baselines. -
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Klocwork
Perforce
Klocwork static code analysis and SAST tool for C, C++, C#, Java, and JavaScript identifies software security, quality, and reliability issues helping to enforce compliance with standards. Built for enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps, Klocwork scales to projects of any size, integrates with large complex environments, a wide range of developer tools, and provides control, collaboration, and reporting for the entire enterprise. This has made Klocwork the preferred static analyzer that keeps development velocity high while enforcing continuous compliance for security and quality. Use Klocwork static application security testing (SAST) for DevOps (DevSecOps). Our security standards identify security vulnerabilities, helping to find and fix security issues early and proving compliance to internationally recognized security standards. Klocwork integrates with CI/CD tools, containers, cloud services, and machine provisioning making automated security testing easy. -
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SonarQube for IDE
SonarSource
Easy to use, no configuration needed — just install from your favorite IDE marketplace and continue to code while SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) does its job. Your current linting tools may come with overhead – specialized tools for languages or longer setup and config time. With SonarQube for IDE, you can settle on a single solution to address your Code Quality and Code Security issues. We have you covered with hundreds of unique, language-specific rules to catch Bugs, Code Smells, and Security Vulnerabilities right in the IDE, as you code. From dangerous regex patterns to non-compliant coding standards, SonarQube for IDE is your true confidante in delivering error-free code. With an intelligent tool by your side, your mistakes are only visible to you so you can understand them, quickly remediate them, and learn along the way. -
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TotalView
Perforce
TotalView debugging software provides the specialized tools you need to quickly debug, analyze, and scale high-performance computing (HPC) applications. This includes highly dynamic, parallel, and multicore applications that run on diverse hardware — from desktops to supercomputers. Improve HPC development efficiency, code quality, and time-to-market with TotalView’s powerful tools for faster fault isolation, improved memory optimization, and dynamic visualization. Simultaneously debug thousands of threads and processes. Purpose-built for multicore and parallel computing, TotalView delivers a set of tools providing unprecedented control over processes and thread execution, along with deep visibility into program states and data. -
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CodeFactor
CodeFactor
Get a glance at code quality for the whole project, recent commits, and the most problematic files. CodeFactor will track new and fixed issues for every commit and pull request. CodeFactor will try to show the most critical issues first based on issue code size, file change frequency, and file size so you can start fixing only what's important. Create and track issues or comments directly from code files or project issues pages. CodeFactor will update the status for GitHub or Bitbucket pull requests as well. CodeFactor allows you to toggle inspection for any repository branch on the fly. CodeFactor integrates with Slack to send code quality notifications for every commit in a branch or pull request. To install, go to the repository settings page. Straightforward pricing based on private repository number. Plain and simple with no hidden fees. Seamless integration into your workflow.Starting Price: $19 per month -
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Sider Scan
Sider Scan
Sider Scan is a lightning-fast duplicate code detection tool for software developers that finds and continuously monitors problems with code duplication. GitLab CI/CD, GitHubActions, Jenkins & CircleCI® integration. Installation using a Docker image. Easy team sharing of the analysis details. Continuous and fast analysis that runs in the background. Dedicated product support via email and phone. Sider Scan enhances long-term code quality and maintenance processes with in-depth duplicate code analysis. It's designed to complement other analysis tools, helping teams to produce cleaner code, and supporting continuous delivery. Sider finds duplicate blocks of code in your project and groups them. For each pair of duplicates, a diff library is created and pattern analyses are initiated to determine if there are any problems. This is referred to as the 'pattern' method of analysis. Time-series analysis is only possible when the scan is consistently run at regular intervals. -
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LDRA Tool Suite
LDRA
The LDRA tool suite is LDRA’s flagship platform that delivers open and extensible solutions for building quality into software from requirements through to deployment. The tool suite provides a continuum of capabilities including requirements traceability, test management, coding standards compliance, code quality review, code coverage analysis, data-flow and control-flow analysis, unit/integration/target testing, and certification and regulatory support. The core components of the tool suite are available in several configurations that align with common software development needs. A comprehensive set of add-on capabilities are available to tailor the solution for any project. LDRA Testbed together with TBvision provide the foundational static and dynamic analysis engine, and a visualization engine to easily understand and navigate standards compliance, quality metrics, and code coverage analyses. -
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Testwell CTC++
Testwell
Testwell CTC++ is a powerful instrumentation-based code coverage and dynamic analysis tool for C and C++ code. With certain add-on components CTC++ can be used also on C#, Java and Objective-C code. Further, again with certain add-on components, CTC++ can be used to analyse code basically at any embedded target machines, also in very small ones (limited memory, no operating system). CTC++ provides Line Coverage, Statement Coverage, Function Coverage, Decision Coverage, Multicondition Coverage, Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC), Condition Coverage. As a dynamic analysis tool, CTC++ shows the execution counters (how many times executed) in the code, i.e. more than a plain executed/not executed information. You can also use CTC++ to measure function execution costs (normally time) and to enable function entry/exit tracing at test time. CTC++ is easy to use.Starting Price: Free -
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Gcov
Oracle
Gcov is an open-source code-coverage tool.Starting Price: Free -
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BullseyeCoverage
Bullseye Testing Technology
BullseyeCoverage is an advanced C++ code coverage tool used to improve the quality of software in vital systems such as enterprise applications, industrial control, medical, automotive, communications, aerospace and defense. The function coverage metric gives you a quick overview of testing completeness and indicates areas with no coverage at all. Use this metric to broadly raise coverage across all areas of your project. Condition/decision coverage provides detail at the control structure level. Use this metric to attain high coverage in specific areas, for example during unit testing. C/D coverage provides better detail than statement coverage or branch coverage, and provides much better productivity than more complex coverage metrics.Starting Price: $900 one-time payment -
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Coverity Static Analysis
Black Duck
Coverity Static Analysis is a comprehensive code scanning solution that enables developers and security teams to deliver high-quality software in compliance with security, functional safety, and industry standards. It effectively uncovers complex defects across extensive codebases, identifying and resolving code quality and security issues that span multiple files and libraries. Coverity supports compliance with a wide range of standards, including OWASP Top 10, CWE Top 25, MISRA, and CERT C/C++/Java, providing built-in reports to track and prioritize issues. With the Code Sight™ IDE plugin, developers receive real-time results, including CWE information and remediation guidance, directly within their development environment, facilitating the integration of security into the software development life cycle without compromising developer velocity. -
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codebeat
codequest
Set up codebeat to track every quality change in one of your Github, Bitbucket, GitLab or self-hosted repositories. We'll get you up and running in seconds. codebeat provides automated code review and supports many programming languages. It will help you prioritize issues and identify quick wins in your web and mobile applications. codebeat offers a great team-management tool for companies and open source contributors. Assign access levels and move people between projects within seconds. Perfect for both small and large troupe.Starting Price: $20 per user per month -
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C-STAT
IAR Systems
Static analysis helps you to find potential issues in your code by doing an analysis on the source code level. C-STAT includes almost 700 checks in total, some comply with rules as defined by MISRA C:2012, MISRA C++:2008 and MISRA C:2004 and more than 250 checks mapping to issues covered by CWE. In addition, it checks compliance with the coding standard CERT C for secure coding. C-STAT executes fast and provides you with comprehensive and detailed error information. You don't need to worry about complex tool setup and struggle with language support and general build issues. C-STAT is completely integrated in the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE and enables you to easy ensure code quality in your daily development flow. It's available for most IAR Embedded Workbench products. Static analysis finds potential issues in code by doing an analysis on the source code level. In addition to raising the code quality, the analysis also aids alignment with industry coding standards. -
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PMD
PMD
PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. -
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CodePeer
AdaCore
The Most Comprehensive Static Analysis Toolsuite for Ada. CodePeer helps developers gain a deep understanding of their code and build more reliable and secure software systems. CodePeer is an Ada source code analyzer that detects run-time and logic errors. It assesses potential bugs before program execution, serving as an automated peer reviewer, helping to find errors easily at any stage of the development life-cycle. CodePeer helps you improve the quality of your code and makes it easier for you to perform safety and/or security analysis. CodePeer is a stand-alone tool that runs on Windows and Linux platforms and may be used with any standard Ada compiler or fully integrated into the GNAT Pro development environment. It can detect several of the “Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors” in the Common Weakness Enumeration. CodePeer supports all versions of Ada (83, 95, 2005, 2012). CodePeer has been qualified as a Verification Tool under the DO-178B and EN 50128 software standards.
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