PRQA | Programming Research today reported the double success of its tool suite in providing compliance with the MISRA set of coding standards for both C and C++ with Gatsometer B.V., a prominent and leading technology company operating in a mixed C/C++ environment.

Gatsometer B.V. leads the world in the provision of traffic enforcement equipment. The company’s core business consists of the development, production and installation of traditional and digital speed and red light camera and radar systems. In addition to its strong domestic market, Gatsometer B.V. exports traffic enforcement systems to countries all over the world.

According to Timo Gatsonides, Gastometer B.V. company chief, the company’s software development spans several generations of technology, with the use of C and recent adoption of C++. With a software development group numbering 25, Gatsometer saw early the need to implement best practices of development by using the MISRA C:2004 guidelines. The company chose PRQA’s QA·C as a tool to support this activity. Among its many benefits, Mr. Gatsonides highlighted QA·C’s ability to provide automatic enforcement, compliance reporting and developer education as the key advantage of this solution.

When Gastometer B.V.’s development broadened into C++ solutions, the company evaluated PRQA’s corresponding QA·C++ solution in combination with the recent MISRA C++: 2008 Coding Standard. Mr. Gatsonides commented, “QA·C++ offers seamlessly equivalent operation to QA·C, and contains an equally impressive level of compliance to the MISRA standard. We also particularly appreciated the online help and assistance which the QA·C++ solution provides to the developer.”

Through adopting QA·C and QA·C++ MISRA analysis solutions, Gatsometer B.V. now operates with full language protection across its C and C++ software development, and enforces recognized coding standards.