Code Analyzers

JSR305 Annotations for Findbugs

acyclic

Findbugs: Because it's easy!

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard

JDepend

<p>PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like:</p> <ul> <li>Possible bugs - empty try/catch/finally/switch statements</li> <li>Dead code - unused local variables, parameters and private methods</li> <li>Suboptimal code - wasteful String/StringBuffer usage</li> <li>Overcomplicated expressions - unnecessary if statements, for loops that could be while loops</li> <li>Duplicate code - copied/pasted code means copied/pasted bugs</li> </ul> <p>You can <b><a ...

SpotBugs: Because it's easy!

dependency analysis for specs2

PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It supports Java, JavaScript, Salesforce.com Apex, PLSQL, Salesforce.com Visualforce, Apache Velocity, XML, XSL. Additionally it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code in Java, C, C++, C#, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, Fortran, JavaScript, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, Scala, Objective C, Matlab, Python, Go, Swift and Salesforce.com Apex.

JDiff