GitHub acquires code analysis tool Semmle

GitHub acquires code analysis tool Semmle

Microsoft's GitHub today announced that it has acquired Semmle, a code analysis tool that helps developers and security researchers discover potential vulnerabilities in their code. Semmle takes a lot of the manual work out of security testing and instead offers a query language that allows researchers to test their code, using the service's analysis engine. Over time, the GitHub team plans to integrate Semmle closely into the GitHub workflow.