The Java static code analysis tool Checkstyle will automate this process. Checkstyle enforces rules that are simple and, when violated, easily fixed with an IDE such as NetBeans or Eclipse to reformat ...

Fortunately, there are Java cyclomatic complexity tools that you can configure directly into the Maven build or make part of the testing phase of the CI pipeline. The JaCoCo Jenkins pipeline plugin ...

Varun Sharma discusses the OpenSSF Scorecard, a tool that tells how well a code repository follows security best practices related to code vulnerabilities, maintenance, and others. It is possible ...

He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java ...

With comprehensive Java coverage at 13M+ in its curated OSS catalog driven by on-demand catalog expansion, ActiveState further expands its industry-leading catalog of secure open source components ...

I use code coverage tools as a reference only. I don’t have a specific percentage in mind. What I do is look at the least tested code, and depending on its complexity or how critical that code ...

Another nifty tool for finding bugs—specifically, when a program fails because no particular spot in memory was assigned to a variable—in Java 14 is Helpful NullPointerExceptions.

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