Rational Software Analyzer Enterprise Edition

Automates code quality analysis as part of the build process

• Enforce the use of static analysis, helping to ensure developers don’t check in code to a software configuration management repository without first analyzing it.
• Run remote scans from within the Rational Build Forge environment, eliminating the need to install local versions of the Rational Software Analyzer Developer Edition application.
• Take advantage of a deep set of analysis, metrics and architectural discovery rules applied across a variety of the most commonly used software languages.

Provides a centralized view of standards compliance

• Automated scanning is not dependent on individuals or locations, making it easier to comply with key IT, engineering and design standards.
• Powerful reporting features facilitate better project visibility through a rich set of out-of-the-box reports and metrics. Reports include details about code review, architectural discovery, software metrics and data flow.
• Centralized reports can be viewed in XML, HTML or Adobe PDF formats. Custom data export formats are also available.
• You can customize rule configurations to help verify that programming guidelines align with corporate governance requirements.
• Analysis results can be accessed directly from Rational Build Forge log files, aiding in potential audits.

Improves overall code quality and predictability

• Uncovers code-level issues and architectural problems early in the development phase to keep costs related to fixes and product maintenance down.
• Allows for integration with other code analysis tools through use of a common, extensible framework.
• Enables analysis rules to run on all code across all releases to aid compliance.
• Makes it easy for teams to customize rules, extending and creating new rules appropriate to their specific products.

Features a single, extensible framework

• Supports a unified workflow, enabling utilization and centralized management of legacy and third-party technologies through the Rational Software Analyzer application programming interface (API).
• Facilitates shell sharing with IBM Rational AppScan Developer Edition and Rational Application Developer, establishing multiple dimensions of an overall application intelligence platform spanning code quality, security vulnerability and application development scans.
• Enables fast start-up and speedy time-to-value through integration into existing Eclipse environments.

Integrates with Rational Build Forge and Rational Team Concert

• Ensures code quality checks are automated into the software development lifecycle, and meet your governance and compliance requirements.
• Provides team collaboration through rule sharing and allows for incremental analysis.
• Enables code quality governance to the developers IDE (integrated development environment) through pre-configured rules enforcement.