SpotBugs - FindBugs' successor, A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

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SpotBugs is the spiritual successor of FindBugs, carrying on from the point where it left off with support of its community. SpotBugs is a program which uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

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awesome-static-analysis - A curated list of static analysis tools, linters and code quality checkers for various programming languages

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This is a collection of static analysis tools and code quality checkers. Pull requests are very welcome! Note: ©️ stands for proprietary software. All other tools are Open Source. To the extent possible under law, Matthias Endler has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. Title image Designed by Freepik.

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codeclimate - Code Climate CLI

•    Ruby

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codeclimate is a command line interface for the Code Climate analysis platform. It allows you to run Code Climate engines on your local machine inside of Docker containers. The Code Climate CLI is distributed and run as a Docker image. The engines that perform the actual analyses are also Docker images. To support this, you must have Docker installed and running locally. We also require that the Docker daemon supports connections on the default Unix socket /var/run/docker.sock.

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PMD - An extensible cross-language static code analyzer

•    Java

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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 and Visualforce, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, XML, XSL.

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pylint - It's not just a linter that annoys you!

•    Python

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Pylint is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells and offers simple refactoring suggestions. It's highly configurable, having special pragmas to control its errors and warnings from within your code, as well as from an extensive configuration file. It is also possible to write your own plugins for adding your own checks or for extending pylint in one way or another.

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HTMLHint - ⚙️ The Static Code Analysis Tool you need for your HTML

•    Javascript

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HTMLHint is a Static Code Analysis Tool for HTML, you can use it with IDE or in build system. Prerequisites: Node.js (>=6.14), npm version 3+.

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Checkstyle - Checks Java coding standard

•    Java

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Checkstyle is a tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Checkstyle is highly configurable and can be made to support almost any coding standard. Checkstyle provides checks that find class design problems, duplicate code, or bug patterns like double checked locking. This tool could be integrated as Ant task.

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csslint - Automated linting of Cascading Stylesheets

•    Javascript

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CSSLint is an open source CSS code quality tool originally written by Nicholas C. Zakas and Nicole Sullivan. It was released in June 2011 at the Velocity conference.A lint tool performs static analysis of source code and flags patterns that might be errors or otherwise cause problems for the developer.

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PhpDependencyAnalysis - Static code analysis to find violations in a dependency graph

•    PHP

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PhpDependencyAnalysis is an extendable static code analysis for object-oriented PHP-Projects to generate dependency graphs from abstract datatypes (Classes, Interfaces and Traits) based on namespaces. Dependencies can be aggregated to build graphs for several levels, like Package-Level or Layer-Level. Each dependency can be verified to a defined architecture. Read the Introduction-Chapter for further informations.

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rubycritic - A Ruby code quality reporter

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RubyCritic is a gem that wraps around static analysis gems such as Reek, Flay and Flog to provide a quality report of your Ruby code.

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oclint - A static source code analysis tool to improve quality and reduce defects for C, C++ and Objective-C

•    C++

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OCLint is a static code analysis tool for improving quality and reducing defects by inspecting C, C++ and Objective-C code.

languagetool - Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages

•    Java

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LanguageTool is an Open Source proofreading software for English, French, German, Polish, Russian, and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect. LanguageTool is freely available under the LGPL 2.1 or later.

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CodeNarc - Static Analysis for Groovy

•    Groovy

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CodeNarc analyzes Groovy code for defects, bad practices, inconsistencies, style issues, coding standards, best practices and more. CodeNarc triggers violations based on rules which are predefined or custom rules. The static analysis report is generated in XML or HTML format. It is well integrated with the Ant Task and plugins exist for Maven, Gradle, Grails, Griffon, Sonar and Hudson.

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sonar-dotnet - Code analyzer for C# and VB

•    CSharp

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Code Analyzer for C#

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JSHint - A Static Code Analysis Tool for JavaScript

•    Javascript

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JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors in JavaScript code and enforce your team's coding conventions.

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goreporter - A Golang tool that does static analysis, unit testing, code review and generate code quality report

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Install goreporter (see above).You have to confirm that your project is operational. In particular, the problem with vendor, when the package is not found in the default path, goreporter will look again from the possible vendor path.

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JLint - static analysis for Java

•    C++

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Jlint will check your Java code and find bugs, inconsistencies and synchronization problems by doing data flow analysis and building the lock graph. Jlint is extremely fast. It is easy to learn and requires no changes to the class files. Jlint has been used in an industrial environment and successfully uncovered faults with little effort.

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Sonarqube - Continuous Code Quality

•    Java

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SonarQube is the open source platform for continuous inspection of code quality. SonarQube provides the capability to not only show health of an application but also to highlight issues newly introduced. With a Quality Gate in place, you can fix the leak and therefore improve code quality systematically. Code analyzers can detect tricky issues such as null-pointers dereferences, logic errors, resource leaks.

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Flow - A static type checker for JavaScript

•    OCaml

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Adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality.

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phpqa - Docker image that provides static analysis tools for PHP

•    PHP

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Docker image providing static analysis tools for PHP. Add it to your ~/.bashrc so it's defined every time you start a new terminal session.

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