Developers: Intel's automated debugging tool ControlFlag is now open source

guest · Oct 21, 2021

Developers: Intel's automated debugging tool ControlFlag is now open source
ControlFlag can automatically detect anomalies in software code
October 20, 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/devel...ebugging-tool-controlflag-is-now-open-source/

Intel's automated code debugging tool ControlFlag is now open source and available for developers to access for free – a move that will come as a relief to many who are tired of spending hours scrutinizing their software programs in search of a potential anomaly.

Now available via GitHub, ControlFlag taps machine learning to automatically identify bugs in software and firmware code, saving developers the time-consuming task of manually debugging the programs they write.
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Announced for the first time at the end of last year, ControlFlag has until now only been used internally by Intel, to spot anomalies in the company's own software development. By opening the tool up to external developers and letting them build on it, Intel is expecting to push the limits of what the system can do to streamline the process of writing code.
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According to Intel, the IT industry spent an estimated $2 trillion in 2020 in software development costs associated with debugging code, which represents about half of the average IT budget.

ControlFlag was designed to address this gap, through a capability known as anomaly detection. The tool learns from previous examples to detect normal coding patterns, and can therefore identify anomalies that are likely to cause a bug, regardless of the programming language.
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In the meantime, developers who are interested in getting started with the tool can now access ControlFlag on GitHub here.
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December 3, 2020
Intel’s ControlFlag taps AI to automatically detect errors in code

guest · Nov 19, 2021

Intel Releases ControlFlag 1.0 For AI-Driven Detection Of Bugs Within C Code
November 18, 2021
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ControlFlag-1.0

Intel last month open-sourced "ControlFlag" for finding bugs within source code by using AI with training off more than a reported one billion lines of code. Intel has said they have successfully been using it within their software from applications down to firmware. The new milestone today is ControlFlag 1.0 being released.

ControlFlag is developed by Intel Labs with an approach of mining patterns from C/C++ open-source code-bases and then detecting anomalous patterns within a developer's codebase. Training was done on a reported 6,000+ GitHub repositories.
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With today's ControlFlag 1.0 release they are advertising that there is full support for the C programming language. In particular though, a focus on (if) conditional statements of C programs.

ControlFlag 1.0 can be downloaded from GitHub.
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