Source code analysis for finding bad coding practices.

PMD alternatives and similar libraries

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• Checkstyle

  9.6 9.5 L3 PMD VS Checkstyle

  Static analysis of coding conventions and standards.

• Infer

  9.3 9.8 PMD VS Infer

  Tool to produce a list of potential bugs.

• SonarQube

  8.7 9.8 L3 PMD VS SonarQube

  Integrates other analysis components via plugins and provides an overview of the metrics over time.

• Error Prone

  8.5 9.4 L3 PMD VS Error Prone

  Catches common programming mistakes as compile-time errors.

• NullAway

  7.5 7.8 PMD VS NullAway

  Eliminates NullPointerExceptions with low build-time overhead.

• Spotbugs

  6.9 8.2 PMD VS Spotbugs

  Static analysis of bytecode to find potential bugs.

• Spoon

  5.9 8.6 L2 PMD VS Spoon

  Library for analyzing and transforming Java source code.

• SonarJava

  5.9 9.3 PMD VS SonarJava

  Static analyzer for SonarQube & SonarLint.

• FindBugs

  5.4 0.0 L1 PMD VS FindBugs

  Static analysis of bytecode to find potential bugs.

• jQAssistant

  3.4 2.2 PMD VS jQAssistant

  Static code analysis with Neo4J-based query language.

• Sourcetrail

  2.6 5.5 PMD VS Sourcetrail

  Visual source code navigator.

• Codacy

  - - PMD VS Codacy

  Continuous static analysis, code coverage, and software metrics to automate code reviews.

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