Static Analysis tool recommendation for Java? [clo

Question

Being vaguely familiar with the Java world I was googling for a static analysis tool that would also was intelligent enough to fix the issues it finds. I ran at CodePro tool but, again, I'm new to the Java community and don't know the vendors.

What tool can you recommend based on the criteria above?

Answer 1

All the above are great tools. PMD is probably the most common.

Another tool is Enerjy. It recently became free, so you can download it and try for yourself. Enerjy is somewhat more organized and a better fit to larger teams. It makes it easier to customize and share the rules. Personally, I'm not a big fan, but maybe you'll fancy it more than I do.

Answer 2

• Findbugs
• PMD
• Checkstyle
• Lint4J
• Classycle
• JDepend
• SISSy
• Google Codepro

Answer 3

IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains. They also do ReSharper in the .Net community.

Answer 4

Sonar is a quality control tool. It gauges quality of Java applications through the observance of coding rules conventions, metric measures and advanced indicators.

Sonar is based on the following projects :

• JavaNCSS: Quality Metrics

• Checkstyle: Style Cheking

• PMD: Code scanning for potential errors.

• Cobertura: Test Coverage

You could also use Simian for duplication detection.

Answer 5

I recommend FindBugs. http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ Good in assisting to do code review.

Answer 6

CRAP4J is not only an awesome name but it's quite useful. The other good ones are all above, best of all (IMHO) is FindBugs, because it really does find honest-to-goodness bugs right away in a big code base.