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 ...

This Checkstyle Plugin enables on-demand scanning of Java files so that they conform to our CheckStyle rules, from within IntelliJ IDEA. Make sure you’ve got Checkstyle-IDEA plugin. If not, install ...

Recently, we released the SonarQube Java 1.4 plugin ecosystem, and as announced in What's coming up for SonarQube in 2013, we're working hard to progressively deprecate as many Checkstyle and PMD ...

It's important to ensure that every developer on the team writes code that complies with conventions and governance rules. It's a key part of ensuring software quality. Of course, if you want a team ...

Code reviews are essential to code quality, but no team wants to review tens of thousands of lines of code, or should have to. In this two-part article, ShriKant Vashishtha and Abhishek Gupta show you ...

Checkstyle makes it easy to automate code reviews once the code has been committed, but wouldn’t it be better if programming errors never made it that far? In this second half of “Automated code ...