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Research reveals over 300 defects in Android OS
By siliconindia
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Friday, 05 November 2010, 00:49 IST
Bangalore: The popularity of Google's Android operating system is soaring by each day. However, here is news that reveals that the operating system is not without defects after all. A research carried out by Coverity, a software quality firm, reveals that the central kernel of the Android mobile operating system has many defects.
Of the 359 flaws detected in the study, 25 percent (88) of them were categorized to be of 'high risk'. This means they can cause a security breach or crash a device running the operating system, particularly Froyo, which was studied in the survey.
Andy Chou, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Coverity said, "The results for the Android kernel we tested show a better than average defect density, meaning this specific kernel is shipping with fewer defects than the industry average for software of this size. However, a significant number of these defects are the high risk types that our customers typically fix before shipping their products to market."
The research encompassed several open source projects like Linux, Apache and PHP. Of the flaws found in their kernels, half of them were termed to be of high risk. This finding asserts that the Android is still more secure as compared to others.
Chou further added, "We believe that highlighting these risks proactively provides developers and OEMs with an opportunity to fix these defects before they become a problem."