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This article is not a linkfarm. Before adding products to the list, make sure they are notable by having their own article. If not, try writing the article first.

Hi,

I noticed that there is no link to IKOS. It's a static analyzer built by NASA.

I don't feel comfortable adding it myself: I didn't create IKOS, but I recently became the maintainer. And I fully understand that this is not a link farm. So, I prefer to let someone else decide.

• The tool is available at: https://github.com/NASA-SW-VnV/ikos

• It's a formal methods tool based on abstract interpretation.

• It has 1.9K stars on github.

• It's actively developed.

• It's been recommended in Ubuntu for security analysis: https://ubuntu.com/blog/getting-started-with-ros-security-scanning

• It's part of Space ROS: https://space-ros.github.io/docs/rolling/Related-Projects/IKOS.html

Perhaps someone else can review it and determine if it should be listed.

IvanPerez (talk) 01:04, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

This is a list of tools with a preexisting Wikipedia article of their own. MrOllie (talk) 01:28, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

I see. Thanks for the clarification. Some of the comments above were also referring to how notable the tool is, which made it sound like an article was not a requirement -- hence my confusion.

I do want to bring up that, if you look through the list, you'll see that some tools were added by the creators of the tools themselves. For example, at first glance I just saw that Yasca's article was added by Michael Scovetta, one of the creators. Is that allowed? Also, the tool is retired, archived, and has seen no changes in more than 6 years.

I don't have anything against that tool or the creator. I didn't even know the tool existed until know. It was just the first one I noticed. But perhaps a review of either the tools, or the criteria to include them, is warranted. IvanPerez (talk) 02:48, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Those edits would not be in keeping with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines, though standards were more lax back in 2008 when the Yasca article was created. MrOllie (talk) 03:07, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

This is a major tool used across DOD for all major languages - it is missing entirely from this article. There is also a separate Wiki article on Fortify Software (SAST and DAST), which references this page. 65.127.122.221 (talk) 23:19, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

This is a list of tools with preexisting Wikipedia articles. An article on a software company isn't the same as an article on the tool. See WP:NOTINHERITED. MrOllie (talk) 23:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Major modern languages are grouped together (and missing quite some tools) in "others" while honorable but anecdotic Ada has a column on its own? B1ack5un (talk) 13:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff python linter ~2026-56581-1 (talk) 13:32, 26 January 2026 (UTC)Reply