QA-C

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QA-C is a commercial static code analysis software tool produced by Programming Research for the C language. Being commercially available since 1989 QA-C has probably been available longer than any other commercial Unix/Windows static analysis tool.

This is the tool that was used to make the C source code measurements given in the book "Safer C" by Les Hatton.

QA-C can be used for quality assurance of C source code and checking the code for conformance to coding guidelines such as MISRA C. Other functionality includes the ability to calculate code metrics for projects with large code-bases.

The tools operate through an IDE designed to help maintain and understand old and new code using detailed cross references and a variety of graphical views.