After a Java static code analysis runs, PMD provides a report of the offending lines of code. PMD can identify common problems such as the hard coding of passwords and IP addresses, the use of a ...

In this step-by-step tutorial, we showed developers how to install the Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse. The plugin lets them take advantage of static code analysis integration in the early stages of the ...

Have you ever thought of how tools like Checkstyle or FindBugs perform a static code analysis, or how Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like NetBeans or Eclipse execute quick code fixes ...

DESIGN East – CodeSonar for Java from GrammaTech, Inc., is a tool that works on all Java code, including code written for Android. The analysis flags quality and security defects. It also works ...

PMD, an open-source automated Java source code analysis and bug detection tool, recently reached version 4.0. InfoQ spoke with Tom Copeland, PMD project lead, to learn more about PMD and what capabili ...

Coverity recently released Readiness Manager for Java providing a dashboard and analysis for code complexity, violation of best practices, architectural integrity, interdependencies, and test coverage ...

IBM on Monday will preview technology for structural analysis of Java application development projects. To be posted on the company’s alphaWorks site, Structural Analysis for Java (SA4J) is ...

There are common aspects to static analysis for C and C++ compared to Java but there are differences as well.

Source code analysis tool manufacturer GrammaTech has unveiled CodeSonar for Java, which flags quality and security defects in Java code including code written for Android. The tool is designed to ...