CERN De-Bugs Hadron Collider With Static Analysis

September 23, 2011 by Sophie Curtis

CERN has been rooting out defects in its Large Hadron Collider, as physicists discover faster-than-light particles

Particle physics lab CERN has announed it may have discovered faster-than-light neutrino particles today. The result could rewrite the laws of physics – but scientists must first work hard to eliminate all possible sources of error from the experiment.

While that effort goes on, CERN’s high-profile Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment continues, with the reassurance that 40,000 software errors have been eliminated from the source code of the software used to analyse its results.

CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is using static analysis software from testing company Coverity to eliminate software defects from ROOT – the C++ framework that is used to store, analyse and visualise data about the LHC. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: eWEEK