Transform Code Quality With AI-Driven Static Analysis

In today’s embedded and safety-critical software development landscape, teams are under pressure to deliver faster while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and compliance. Traditional static analysis workflows often create their own bottlenecks: thousands of violations, limited context, and labor-intensive remediation.

Parasoft is tackling these challenges with a modernized, intelligent approach, embedding machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) into its software testing solutions. These innovations are more than upgrades. They represent a transformative leap in how teams prioritize and fix static analysis violations in complex systems.

A Powerful Static Analysis Engine Built for Safety-Critical Code

Before AI and ML can go to work, building safety-critical code starts with deep, accurate static analysis. Parasoft’s C/C++test is built on a mature, proven engine that delivers full, standards-compliant violation detection out of the box. C/C++test fully supports a broad range of industry standards, including MISRA C:2025, MISRA C++:2023, AUTOSAR C++14, CERT C/C++, CWE, and more. These standards are essential for teams building applications where safety, security, and reliability cannot be compromised.

What sets us apart is not just the breadth of support, but the depth of configuration and control. Organizations can tailor rule enforcement to match specific project goals, system criticality, or legacy code realities. Rules can be enabled, disabled, customized, or grouped by compliance requirements. Even entirely new rules can be created using Parasoft’s RuleWizard.

Development teams also get support for data flow analysis and control flow analysis. These tests offer comprehensive insights into potential runtime risks like null pointer dereferences, buffer overflows, or concurrency issues—long before they manifest in testing or production.

This static analysis engine doesn’t operate in isolation. It seamlessly integrates into CI/CD pipelines, developer IDEs, and our centralized reporting platform, Parasoft DTP (Development Testing Platform). Whether you’re doing shift-left testing in your IDE or enforcing policies in a CI job, Parasoft finds violations early, accurately, and in context.

Machine Learning That Understands Your Priorities

Once your development team identifies the violations, the challenge becomes, which ones do you fix first? We answer that with an embedded machine learning engine in DTP. This ML engine learns from:

• Your development history
• How your team treats violations across sprints
• Projects and product lines

It uses that behavior to rank and prioritize new findings.

ML captures each developer’s interactions with reported violations using DTP’s centralized analytics hub. DTP begins building a behavioral model for issues marked as fixed, suppressed, deviated, or reassigned. This model evolves with each sprint, learning how your team prioritizes different types of violations based on severity, risk, and history.

For new users, the model can be trained manually. Developers categorize and act on violations sprint by sprint, teaching the system to distinguish what matters most.
Existing Parasoft customers experience the benefits immediately. We use historical data to train the model instantly, reflecting years of real-world decisions.

This ML-driven prioritization allows teams to focus first on violations with the highest remediation value, those most likely to affect safety, functionality, or compliance. Instead of being overwhelmed by a sea of warnings, developers see the top issues that must be fixed now, enabling smarter triage and better use of engineering time.

In domains where compliance with standards like MISRA, CERT, ISO 26262, or DO-178C is mandatory, this capability streamlines audits and reporting. Teams can demonstrate that they’re focusing on mandatory rules first and documenting justified deviations for others without trying to fix every violation blindly.

Generative AI That Fixes Violations the Right Way

After ML prioritizes the most important violations, Parasoft helps fix them—not with brute-force automation, but with guided intelligence. Its integration of generative AI into the C/C++test VS Code extension transforms error remediation into a smarter, safer process.

Many developers are familiar with tools like GitHub Copilot. While useful for generating code snippets, these assistants often lack domain-specific context, may suggest noncompliant fixes, and typically offer little to no rationale behind their suggestions. In critical applications—such as those governed by safety or security standards—these limitations introduce unacceptable risk.

Parasoft addresses this challenge by embedding Copilot into its C/C++test environment with a purpose-built approach. Rather than relying on generic AI prompts, Parasoft enhances them with rich contextual guidance tailored to the violation at hand, including the following.

• Detailed information about the violated rule
• Compliant and noncompliant code examples
• Clear explanation of the rule’s intent

Unlike generic coding assistants, this structured, standards-aware prompt ensures that the AI-generated fix respects not only syntax but also the underlying safety, security, and compliance requirements. The result is smarter, more trustworthy code remediation that aligns with industry expectations and reduces rework.

Each AI-driven fix includes:

• A description of the violated rule
• Compliant and noncompliant code examples
• The purpose behind the rule, such as memory safety or logic correctness
• Specific reasoning to walk the AI through the problem-solving process

This technique, known as chain-of-thought reasoning, helps the AI produce complete, high-quality fixes that align with safety and security standards. It’s not just generating code, it’s generating code with an explanation, making it easier to review, understand, and trust.
In internal studies, Parasoft compared three approaches:

1. GitHub Copilot on its own
2. Copilot with rule-aware prompts
3. Copilot with rule-aware prompts plus reasoning

The third approach consistently produced the most reliable and standards-compliant results, significantly outperforming the others in both correctness and auditability.
The tool delivers these suggestions directly within the VS Code editor, allowing developers to accept, modify, or learn from each fix. The added transparency boosts trust in the AI, while also improving knowledge transfer across teams.

Raising the Bar for Compliance and Developer Efficiency

By combining ML prioritization and GenAI remediation, Parasoft offers more than just automation. It delivers intelligent guidance throughout the static analysis life cycle. Teams no longer waste time chasing low-priority issues or rewriting obvious fixes. Instead, they focus on what’s important, fix it the right way, and move forward with confidence.
This intelligent approach accelerates development, reduces the cost of defects, and simplifies the path to compliance, all while enabling teams to make informed, traceable decisions that stand up to audits and certifications.

Whether you’re building the next autonomous vehicle system, a medical monitoring device, or mission-critical avionics, Parasoft’s AI-powered testing suite is built to meet the challenge.

Helping Developers Learn Faster With the AI Documentation Assistant

While Parasoft’s AI and ML innovations streamline violation prioritization and remediation, we also focus on simplifying how developers interact with the tooling itself. Documentation has always played a critical role in tool adoption, but for many users, especially those new to compliance-heavy workflows, finding relevant answers buried in long technical manuals can be frustrating and time-consuming.

To solve this, Parasoft introduced a built-in AI-based documentation assistant in C/C++test 2025.1. Integrated directly into the developer’s IDE, this assistant responds to goal-oriented questions. Here are a couple of examples.

• How do I suppress a static analysis violation?
• How do I run static analysis from the command line?

Instead of navigating through menus or scanning lengthy guides, developers get focused, contextual answers, complete with direct links to the relevant sections of the documentation. This dramatically shortens the learning curve and helps teams become productive much faster.

The AI Documentation Assistant provides three major benefits:

• Accelerated onboarding. New users can start contributing faster with fewer training bottlenecks.
• Increased tool utilization. Developers are more likely to explore advanced features when access to knowledge is frictionless.
• Improved ROI. With less time spent searching and more time acting, organizations maximize the value of their tooling investment.

This assistant is another example of how Parasoft is bringing AI to every layer of the software testing experience, not just to detect or fix code, but to empower users through intelligent, responsive support.

A Smarter Way Forward

Parasoft modernizes the entire static analysis life cycle by embedding artificial intelligence and machine learning into our C/C++ testing solution. From detecting and prioritizing violations to accelerating remediation and improving user adoption through an AI-powered documentation assistant, these innovations amplify human decision-making with intelligent tools that adapt, guide, and evolve alongside your team.

Whether you’re developing next-generation automotive ECUs, avionics control systems, or medical device firmware, Parasoft equips you with smarter tools, safer code, and faster results to meet today’s software quality challenges with clarity, efficiency, and confidence.