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Java Static Analysis And Custom Bug Detectors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the developerworks-ftl dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Java static analysis and custom bug detectors can be a very cost-effective way to improve software quality. By creating a detector for a known bug pattern, we can search for that bug pattern not only in the current code base for a specific project, but in any project, current or future. This article looks at how static analysis tools can change the way you manage software quality."

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  1. FindBugs is awesome by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Informative

    As the lead guy on a "competing" static analysis framework - PMD - I can say that FindBugs is definitely a great piece of work. It catches all sorts of complicated problems with concurrency, does forwards/backwards data flow analysis, etc, etc. It's pretty sweet. Dr Pugh, who runs the project at the University of Maryland, did a JavaPosse interview that's some more good info on the project and where it's going.

    Of course, if you really want to do source code analysis (vs bytecode analysis, which is what FindBugs does), then go for PMD, and [plug] get the book! [/plug]

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