A Quick Note About Code Quality Tools

A Quick Note About Code "Quality" Tools

One other area that I personally have not worked extensively with, but am beginning to look into, can be best described as code quality tools (or static code analysis tools). These tools help you verify the quality of your codefor example, code adherence to standards, dead code, unit test coverage of code, and so on. Some tools in this area worth checking include the following:

• Checkstyle (checkstyle.sourceforge.net)

• Clover (www.cenqua.com)

• Cobertura (cobertura.sourceforge.net)

• PMD (pmd.sourceforge.net)