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Intro to Code Quality Rules with FindBugs and PMD 1. Overview In this article, we will be highlighting some of the important rules featured in code analysis tools like FindBugs, PMD and CheckStyle. 2. Cyclomatic Complexity ==== 2.1. What Is Cyclomatic Complexity? Code complexity is important, yet difficult metric to… Continue Reading code-quality-metrics

Introduction to PMD 1. Overview Simply put, PMD is a source code analyzer to find common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It supports Java, JavaScript, Salesforce.com Apex, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, XML, XSL. In this article, we’ll focus on how to use… Continue Reading pmd

Code Analysis with SonarQube 1. Overview In this article, we’re going to be looking at static source code analysis with SonarQube – which is an open-source platform for ensuring code quality. Let’s start with a core question – why analyze source code in the first place? Very simply put, to… Continue Reading sonar-qube

Introduction to CheckStyle 1. Overview Checkstyle is an open source tool that checks code against a configurable set of rules. In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how to integrate Checkstyle into a Java project via Maven and by using IDE plugins. The plugins mentioned in below sections aren’t… Continue Reading checkstyle-java

Introduction to FindBugs 1. Overview FindBugs is an open source tool used to perform static analysis on Java code. In this article, we’re going to have a look at setting up FindBugs on a Java project and integrating it into the IDE and the Maven build. 2. FindBugs Maven Plugin… Continue Reading intro-to-findbugs

Static Code Analysis in Java Static Code Analysis is a method of analyzing the source code of programs without running them. It can discover formatting problems, null pointer dereferencing, and other simple scenarios. So, let’s jump into it. >> Introduction to Code Quality Metrics An overall look on some of… Continue Reading java-static-code-analysis-tutorial