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Static code analysis tool that helps developers check standard compliance, security vulnerabilities, and code quality issues for C and C++ code. It performs automated analysis to identify violations of coding guidelines like MISRA C and detect clones, dead code, and security vulnerabilities. Key features include coding standards compliance checking, metric monitoring, defect analysis, and certification for safety-critical software development.

PHPUnit requires the dom and json extensions, which are normally enabled by default. PHPUnit also requires the pcre, reflection, and spl extensions. These standard extensions are enabled by default and cannot be disabled without patching PHP’s build system and/or C sources. The code coverage report feature requires the Xdebug (2.7.0 or later) and tokenizer extensions. Generating XML reports requires the xmlwriter extension. Unit Tests are primarily written as a good practice to help developers identify and fix bugs, to refactor code and to serve as documentation for a unit of software under test. To achieve these benefits, unit tests ideally should cover all the possible paths in a program. One unit test usually covers one specific path in one function or method. However a test method is not necessarily an encapsulated, independent entity. Often there are implicit dependencies between test methods, hidden in the implementation scenario of a test.