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Coverity and Headway Software, this week announced a technology
partnership to advance and commercialize structural analysis and
architectural control technologies. By leveraging Coverity's new
Software DNA mapping technology and their own best-in-class structural
analysis and architectural control technology, Headway will provide
products that produce high fidelity architectural diagrams of software
structure, enabling their customers to build and maintain software of
the highest architectural integrity.

Structure101, Headway's flagship structural analysis and architectural
control product, is immediately available for use with Prevent SQS for
Java, Coverity's new software quality system. Structure101 provides
control of Java software architecture through dependency management
and analysis. Future versions of the product will support C and C++.

"In our view, a sound architecture is a pre-requisite for quality
software, we believe Headway provides the best solutions and the best
understanding of this domain," said Ben Chelf, CTO of Coverity. "With
Coverity.s unique Software DNA technology, I'm confident that we can
work with Headway to deliver C, C++ and Java architectural products
that will be market leaders and raise the awareness of the value of
architectural control."

"Together with Coverity, we can help customers solve one of the
biggest problems in software development projects - code that is too
complex for people to understand," said Chris Chedgey, CEO of Headway
Software. "Customers that want the very best architectural control and
software quality control can now be confident that Headway and
Coverity solutions can be tightly integrated together."

Customers can use both Coverity Prevent SQS and Structure101 from a
single repository, easily adding complete source code analysis to
create an accurate map of a project's software DNA, identify defects
and security vulnerabilities, manage and fix software defects, and
control structural complexity.

Key features of Structure101 for Coverity Prevent SQS include:

* Dependency management with implementation models and diagrams of
all dependencies
* Graphical dependency hierarchy views with choice of package,
flat package, flat class, directory or jar views
* Auto-partitioning of large dependency graphs
* Measurement of excessive structural complexity ("XS")
* Comparison of structure between different builds
* Ability to define and enforce the intended architecture, through
simplified dependency graphs (or "Architecture Diagrams")
* Unique Mapping of Architecture Diagrams to the physical code
through simplified regular expressions
* Publication of Architecture Diagrams to a centralized repository
for sharing across distributed teams
* Eclipse Plugin that presents Architecture Diagrams to the
developers
* Violations of defined architecture exposed as they are created

Availability
Structure101 for Java can be downloaded from http://www.headwaysoftware.com/downloads.
Availability of Structure101 for C/C++ will be announced shortly.

Coverity and Headway will demonstrate their combined solution this
week at the 2007 JavaOne Conference in Moscone Center, San Francisco,
May 8-11. Please visit Coverity Booth # 613.