Tizen is a Linux-based open-source operating organisation backed past times Intel together with Samsung Electronics, which has been inwards evolution since early on 2012 together with designed for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, smart watches, cameras together with PCs.
According to Andrey Karpov — founder of Russia-based companionship Program Verification Systems that made PVS-Studio, a static code analyzer tool that helps programmers to uncovering together with railroad train bugs inwards their source codes — his squad has discovered hundreds of errors inwards Tizen projection using PVS-Studio.
Samsung's Tizen operating system, written inwards C/C++ programming language, currently has 72.5 1 one m thousand lines of source code, out of which Karpov's squad has analysed to a greater extent than or less randomly chosen modules i.e. 3.3% of the entire Project together with institute nearly 900 errors.
"If nosotros extrapolate the results, nosotros volition encounter that our squad is able to uncovering together with railroad train nigh 27000 errors inwards Tizen," Karpov says.In Apr this year, Israeli researcher Amihai Neiderman mail exchanged betwixt Karpov together with Kim, Samsung is already using the SVACE applied scientific discipline (Security Vulnerabilities together with Critical Errors Detector) to uncovering potential vulnerabilities together with errors inwards source code of applications created for Tizen.
"We are already aware that to a greater extent than or less other tool tin transportation away uncovering additional defects. However, nosotros don't grip amongst that Tizen has 27,000 defects that should travel fixed. As y'all know, many of static analysis warnings are frequently considered every bit insignificant issues," Kim added.Tizen operating organisation already runs on nearly 30 1 one m thousand Smart TVs, Milky Way Gear-branded watches Smart TVs, cameras, dwelling appliances together with to a greater extent than or less of its smartphones sold inwards countries similar Russia, Republic of Republic of India together with Bangladesh.
Samsung has fifty-fifty plans to convey to a greater extent than or less 10 Million Tizen smartphones inwards the marketplace at the halt of this year.
So, if claims made past times the researcher are truthful — which was also acknowledged past times a Samsung example to to a greater extent than or less extent — the companionship should shift their focus mainly towards the safety of the operating organisation inwards Tizen 4.0, which is due for liberate inwards September.
