This paper contains an evaluation of common open source static analysistools available for C. The tools algorithms are examined and measured in a test environment designed for such benchmarks to present their strengths and weaknesses. The examined tools represent different approaches to static analysis to get a good coverage of the algorithms that are commonly used.

The test environment shows how many bugs that are correctly reportedby the tools, and also how many falsely reported bug they produce. The revealed strengths and weaknesses are discussed in relation to the tools algorithms to gain a deeper understanding of their limitations.