RuleChecker is a static analyzer that automatically checks your C or C++ code for compliance with MISRA rules, CERT recommendations, and other coding guidelines.
RuleChecker primarily targets safety-critical embedded applications, but can also be used to analyze any structured programs, handwritten or generated, with complex memory usages, dynamic memory allocation, and recursion.
Supported standards
- MISRA C:2025
- MISRA C:2023
- MISRA C++:2023
- MISRA C:2012, incl. Amendment 1, 2 & 3
- MISRA C++:2008
- MISRA C:2004
- MISRA AC AGC
- SEI CERT Secure C
- SEI CERT C++
- MITRE CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration)
- ISO/IEC TS 17961:2013 (C Secure Coding Rules)
- ISO/IEC 9899:1999 diagnostics
- Adaptive AUTOSAR C++14
- JSF AV (Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle) C++ Coding Standards
- Clang Static Analyzer checks
- HIS metrics
- Customizable style rules for all C identifiers
- Your very own in-house coding guidelines (on request)
Features
Qualification support
Your usage of Rule Checker can be qualified according to ISO 26262, DO-178C, IEC-61508, EN-50128, IEC-60880, IEC-60188, ISO 25119, DO-330, DO-333, the FDA Principles of Software Validation, and other safety standards. We offer a special Qualification Support Kit that simplifies and automates the qualification process.
Who uses RuleChecker?
The global automotive supplier Helbako in Germany is using RuleChecker to demonstrate MISRA compliance of their electronic control software.
MTU Friedrichshafen is using RuleChecker to demonstrate the correctness of control software for emergency power generators in power plants.
Bosch Automotive Steering replaced their legacy tools with Astrée and RuleChecker, resulting in significant savings thanks to faster analyses, higher accuracy, and optimized licensing and support costs.
Distalmotion uses Rule Checker on a daily basis for medical device development. It helps the software team to assess and improve the quality and compliance of the code driving Distalmotion’s safety-critical robotic surgery platform.
On the lookout for an SCA tool for their AUTOSAR Adaptive applications for a German OEM, Luxoft found RuleChecker to be the only static analyzer on the market that’s easy to set up on a complex toolchain with a build process partly executed within virtual machines. At Luxoft, RuleChecker validates code compliance with the C++ AUTOSAR Adaptive platform guidelines and HIS metrics, thus elegantly fulfilling their quality targets. It successfully integrates with a Jenkins CI server where it generates automatic reports for every single change in the code, as well as with multiple AUTOSAR Adaptive toolchains from different vendors.
Moving toward releasing the first MISRA-compliant embedded database system, McObject incorporated RuleChecker into its software production and realized immediate benefits with respect to the stability and traceability of the code.
Availability
- We offer RuleChecker bundled with Astrée, our tool for static runtime error analysis of C and C++ code.
RuleChecker as a standalone tool is available from our partner QA Systems, re-branded as QA-MISRA for that purpose.
- Also available is a bundle of QA-MISRA with Cantata, a tool for automated dynamic unit and integration testing for C and C++.
Free trial
You can try out both RuleChecker and Astrée on your own code for a period of 30 days.
Start your free trial today, complete with online training
and tech support.
A free trial of QA-MISRA can be requested at qa-systems.com/start-trial.