On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:42 AM, dsh <daniel.hais...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I use FindBugs, Checkstyle, PMD and other static code analysis tools > on my own where applicable while working on Apache or other projects. > According to my experience, enforcing such tools for instance during a > continuous integration build cycle has the advantage that it a) breaks > the build if configured to do so and b) somebody has to review the > reports generated by such tools which is a cumbersome task to do. So > IMHO using such tools interactively while developing code is more > appropriate than using them in a batch-like manner. Additionally I > would say FindBugs et al. are sometimes able to indicate potential > memory leaks based on a particular code fragment which is probably > something that can't be covered using unit tests only. > > Cheers > Daniel >
Sonar fixes the "cumbersome report review task" issue" :) -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
