What Checkstyle, PMD and Findbugs can do for your code
Frank Kelly's excellent blog article Analyze This - Put your code on the couch!
discusses the most important bugs and code smells the three static analyzers Checkstyle, PMD and Findbugs are able to find. Together with unit testing and code coverage for dynamic quality assurance they can help you creating much better Java code.
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discusses the most important bugs and code smells the three static analyzers Checkstyle, PMD and Findbugs are able to find. Together with unit testing and code coverage for dynamic quality assurance they can help you creating much better Java code.
Luckily there are Maven 2 plugins for all three of them:
- How to use the Maven 2 Checkstyle Plugin
- How to use the Maven 2 PMD Plugin
- How to use the Maven 2 Findbugs Plugin
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