SonarQube does this because it builds upon PMD, Findbugs and Checkstyle. It also includes other open source plugins -- such as Cobertura -- along with a good deal of custom code, to provide a static ...

Klocwork Insight for C/C++ and Java brings static source code analysis to Java developers. It can help improve code quality while reducing bugs and addressing security vulnerabilities ...

Many of these projects illustrate the collaborative energy that goes into open-source efforts and the sophistication of the results. One such project is PMD, a Java source code analyzer.

It's always a good idea to employ a few static code analysis tools as part of your software development routine. There are a number of great tools that perform static analysis of Java code, such as ...

Klocwork will be showing off its extended Java static source-code-analysis capabilities as part of its Klocwork Insight product at ESC. Its source code analysis solution can identify critical bugs ...

Todd is a Professional Engineer and a Certified Scrum Product Owner. About Klocwork Klocwork is an enterprise software company providing automated source code analysis software products that automate ...

"Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source.

We may not see perfect source code in our lifetime, but we are seeing much better analysis tools and promising new approaches to remedy the problem.

This utility also shows the coding violation messages as well as the location of violated source code as output. Consider a simple Java class that overrides the equals () method of the Object class.

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 ...