Parse C / C++ / C# / Java

The Synesis Softare Source Analysis Tools are able to parse all C-family languages into a powerful object model, facilitating analysis, gathering of code quality statistics and wholesale corrective/diagnostic modification of your codebases.

Detect Code Duplication

The Synesis Softare Source Analysis Tools are able to analyse source code from any C-family language and produce precise assessments of the level of code duplication. This work is essential for intellectual property disputes and for providing precise guidance in code quality remediation.

Code Quality Assessements

Synesis Softare Source Analysis Tools can be programmatically guided to identify specific dangerous/unwarranted coding practices, on a per-language basis, allowing adherence to your coding standards to be mechanically assessed. This can provide substantial productivity gains by supplementing the necessary manual processes of software quality review.

Products

Synesis Software's source code analysis tools are not available for purchase. Rather, they are applied to the codebases of clients for whom we are providing services. Such services include:

Detection of Copying between codebases - the identification of copied (exact and modified) material between codebases is an essential factor in intellectual property disputes. Synesis Software have experience in providing expert witness services on very large codebases that would be impossible to comprehensively analyse by hand.
Detection of Copying within codebases - this is an important code quality assessment. It's not uncommon to find that large files have accreted large amounts - sometimes tens of thousands of lines - of copied code. Precise identification in these cases is essential to mitigating risk in refactoring such out-of-control source code.
Wholesale Modification - for a variety of commercial or technical reasons, codebases can require wholesale modification:
- Conversion from one language to another
- Diagnostic instrumentation of code
- Changing layout conventions
- Replacing/updating file headers

Our tools are able to parse, analyse (both comparitive analysis and rules-based analysis), and modify source code in all of the major C-family languages:

C, from K&R - C99
C++, including C++0x
C++/CLI
C#, from C# 1.0 - C# 4.0
D
Java, from Java 1.0 - Java 6

We also have tools that are able to manipulate:

makefiles (including gmake and nmake variants)
Visual Studio Project files
Visual Studio Workspace and Solution files

Many of Synesis Software's other developments are either available for free (see our resources page), or are extensions of our proprietary tools created for our clients.