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This release includes new features, as well as enhancements to the existing functionality.

Integration with Development Testing Platform

The latest release of C++test features integration with  Parasoft Development Testing Platform (DTP) that builds on Parasoft’s innovative approach to continuously improving software quality processes. It helps you optimize development processes by aggregating and analyzing local analysis results and converting them into actionable findings that can be imported to your IDE.  Test configurations that are stored in DTP can be shared across the team to help you enforce your organization's coding policy*.

See Connecting to Development Testing Platform for more information.

Enhancements to Static Analysis

In this release, we've added new rules following the CERT C Coding Standard, as well as modern C++ standards (C++11, C++14, and C++17), see New Code Analysis Rules. The CERT C rules have been added to the CERT C Coding Standard built-in test configuration; see Updated CERT C Configuration for information about the mapping.

Additionally, stability and accuracy of results reported by Static Analysis and FlowAnalysis have been improved; see Updated Code Analysis Rules for the list of rules that have been modified in terms of accuracy of results or documentation changes.

The RuleWizard Module has been extended with the following nodes and properties:

• C/C++ Nodes> Expressions> Miscellaneous> Lambda node
• C/C++ Nodes> General> Lambda Capture node
• HasDefaultValue property (true for routine parameter with default value)

See RuleWizard 10.3.2 User's Guide for more details.

Collecting Call Coverage

The coverage functionality has been extended to collect information about the number of defined function or method calls were executed at program runtime, see Reviewing Coverage Information.

Other changes and enhancements

• The new "Code parsing problems" option allows you to better customize how Static Analysis is performed when analyzing files with parse errors. This option has replaced the "Analyze files with parse errors" option from C++test 9.6. See Static Tab Settings - Defining How Static Analysis is Performed.
• If you use the command line mode, you can enable sending results to DTP with the -publish option, which in C++test 9.x was used to report results to Team Server. In C++test 10.x, publishing results to Team Server can be enabled with the -publishteamserver option.
• C++test has been enhanced with the new CPPTEST_ENGINE_EXTRA_ARGS  option that allows you to customize advanced Static Analysis settings, such as source file encoding or the memory size; see Configuring Advanced Options.
• Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 are no longer supported.

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The verbose mode has been added for the BD-PB-ZERO rule.

 Severity levels for MISRA C 2012 rules have been updated:

• Mandatory → Severity 1
• Required → Severity 2
• Advisory → Severity 4

The following rules have been modified:

• BD-PB-ARRAY, BD-PB-ERRNO, BD-PB-EXCEPT, BD-PB-INTOVERF, BD-PB-NOTINIT, BD-PB-NZTS, BD-PB-SWITCH, BD-TRS-TSHL
• CODSTA-144*, CODSTA-145*, CODSTA-150*, CODSTA-150_b*, CODSTA-161_a, CODSTA-CPP-04, CODSTA-CPP-28, CODSTA-CPP-53
• INIT-06, INIT-07, INIT-15
• JSF-071_b, JSF-118, JSF-174_b, JSF-177_b, JSF-180_f, JSF-180_g, JSF-209_b
• MISRA-043_c, MISRA-043_d, MISRA-107_b, MISRA2004-6_3_b, MISRA2004-16_7, MISRA2008-7_1_1, MISRA2008-7_1_2_a, MISRA2012-DIR-4_1_a, MISRA2012-DIR-4_6_b, MISRA2012-RULE-8_13_a, MISRA2012RULE-10_1_a, MISRA2012-RULE-12_4_a*, MISRA2012-RULE-14_3_zd, MISRA2012-RULE-18_1_a
• OOP-01
• PB-66_a*
• SECURITY-10, SECURITY-12*, SECURITY-25

* documentation changes

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The CERT C Coding Standard built-in test configuration has been updated with new Parasoft rules according to the following rule mapping:

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CODSTA-188

Fixed PRs and FRs

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* Parasoft Concerto (4.9.4 and later) is now deprecated. You can still connect to the Project Center and Team Server modules, but future releases of C++test will replace Conterto-related workflows with DTP workflows.

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