Stuart Foster
Klocwork and Helix QAC Product Manager
Stuart Foster has over 17 years of experience in mobile and software development. He has managed product development of consumer apps and enterprise software. Currently, he manages Klocwork and Helix QAC, Perforce’s market-leading code quality management solutions. He believes in developing products, features, and functionality that fit customer business needs and helps developers produce secure, reliable, and defect-free code. Stuart holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology, interactive multimedia and design from Carleton University, and an advanced diploma in multimedia design from the Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology.
Latest Content from Stuart Foster
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What Is CVE? Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Overview
The most trusted and complete list of software security vulnerabilities is the Common Vulnerability Exposures (CVE) list. Here, we explain what is the CVE list and how it can help ensure that your software is secure.
Security & Compliance, DevOps
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What Is CERT? Overview of CERT and CERT Secure Coding
It is essential that you use a secure coding standard — like CERT— to ensure that your software is protected against potential security vulnerabilities. Here, we explain what is CERT C and why CERT secure coding is important.
Security & Compliance, Software Quality
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What Are Machine Learning Uses to Improve Static Analysis?
As code is being written, static analysis tools — such as Helix QAC and Klocwork — identify coding defects, vulnerabilities, and compliance issues. However, static analysis can also produce a great deal of results, and depending on your perspective and goals, not all results will be relevant or interesting in all cases.
Here, we explain three machine learning uses to help improve the relevance of static analysis results.
DevOps
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What Is EN 50128?
EN 50128 is a functional safety standard tailored for the particular demands of the rail industry. It’s titled “Railway applications — Communication, signaling, and processing systems — Software for railway control and protection systems”.
Software Quality, Security & Compliance
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Why Eclipse Iceoryx Uses Helix QAC
It’s important that automotive software developers have safe inter-process communication for autonomous cars, which is why Eclipse Iceoryx was developed. And, why Eclipse Iceoryx chose to use Helix QAC to help ensure that autonomous vehicle software is safe and high quality.
DevOps, Security & Compliance