Coverity software testing package ensures search for God Particle stays on track

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Tests have already discovered 40,000 defects in 50 million lines of code

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is using software development testing vendor Coverity's Static Analysis package to test the software CERN's scientists write and use for analys...

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