Klockwork Introduces Source Code Analysis Tool For Symbian Smartphone Application Development

Klocwork first-to-market with enterprise source code analysis solutions for Symbian smartphone application development

BURLINGTON, Mass. - December 17, 2007 - Klocwork announced today that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OS™. As a Platinum Partner, Klocwork has extended its source code analysis product suite to support the Symbian ecosystem. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones, to the world's leading handset manufacturers.

Klocwork
"This partnership reflects our commitment to deliver software security and quality assurance solutions to the mobile device market," said Gwyn Fisher, Klocwork's chief technology officer. "By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, we can offer our leading source code analysis to developers making Klocwork a standard part of their development process."

Klocwork provides highly scalable and accurate source code analysis tools for developers so they can easily identify critical software security and quality defects, track them throughout their software development process and prevent them from reoccurring. Available for immediate customer trials, Klocwork's solution for Symbian OS provides built-in awareness of its unique programming interfaces along with a family of defect checkers. This robust, new defect rule set will automatically identify the following critical issues for Symbian developers:

Memory leaks through the identification of incorrect use of the Symbian OS clean up stack and memory management routines;Improper memory deletion which can lead to system panics or segmentation faults, and; A variety of maintainability issues such as member variable naming conventions.

Symbian
"Software security and quality are fundamental requirements for today's smartphones," said Mike Whittingham, vice president ecosystem relations, Symbian. "We are pleased to welcome a recognized leader in source code analysis like Klocwork into the Symbian Platinum Program bringing valuable technology to our thriving ecosystem."

 

About the Symbian Platinum Program

The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team. For more information please see www.symbian.com/partners/platinum.html for details.

About Symbian Limited

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q3 2007, 20.4 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 30 September 2007 to 165 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Asia (India, P.R. China, and Korea) and Japan. For more information, please visit symbian.com.

About Klocwork

Klocwork is an enterprise software company providing automated source code analysis software products that automate security vulnerability and quality risk assessment, remediation and measurement for C, C++ and Java software. More than 200 organizations have integrated Klocwork's automated source code analysis tools into their software development process in order to ensure their code is free of mission-critical flaws while freeing their developers to focus on what they do best - innovate.

Contact Klocwork for more information at www.klocwork.com or info@klocwork.com.

Klocwork and the Klocwork logo are registered trademarks of Klocwork, Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Enquiries

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Karen Hamblen Symbian Press Office +44 207 154 1707 1000

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