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Fortify Gets Multilingual


New version of SCA works with more languages, adds customization

By Jeff Feinman
November 1, 2007 — 
Fortify Software has added customization and collaboration capabilities to the latest version of Fortify Source Code Analysis.

Fortify SCA 5.0, expected to be released on Oct. 22, comes with the ability to modify the way in which analysis results are filtered, prioritized and allocated. It also offers developers the opportunity to scan code of a larger number of languages. The tool now has the ability to either load code scan results into existing tools, or upload them into an HTML interface and a Web interface. Through the second method, groups of people can view and audit those results.

“You will now have an option of either using multiple tools to do audits individually, or can use the HTML interface to do it collaboratively,” said Barmak Meftah, vice president of products and services for Fortify.

Fortify SCA now supports PHP; Meftah noted the company has seen a trend of developers writing more Web applications with PHP. Fortify SCA will have full language support for JavaScript, supporting the increasing use of AJAX. There will also be the ability to write with Microsoft Visual Basic and Active Server Pages (ASP).

“We didn’t support that up until now…because we were assuming that the conversion between classic ASP and classic Visual Basic would happen to .NET much more expeditiously,” said Meftah. “Although we see a big adoption trend with .NET already, there is a huge installed base on ASP and Visual Basic out there, which I don’t think is going to change as fast as we thought it would.”

Meftah also said that COBOL support would be in an upcoming preview release. Meftah noted the frequent use of COBOL in financial services and in the federal government. To this day, COBOL still runs some of the most mission-critical pieces of those organizations, he said.

Another feature of Fortify SCA 5.0 is enhanced extensibility and customization. Meftah said the tool has two key components, the engine component containing analysis algorithms, and Fortify rules, for secure coding. End users have the ability to write their own sets of rules. The interface around the Fortify rules, which are updated every three months, has been enhanced through enhanced integrations with Fortify Audit Workbench, which combines Fortify’s source code analysis capabilities and a user interface, allowing developers to prioritize results.

Other new features in Fortify SCA include a rules wizard, unlimited multidimensional taint propagation and an API scan view. Development teams can also publish the results of a source code scan to Fortify’s Team Server for review.


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