Overall, I was disappointed by the session. Most of it was about the performance anti-patterns and i was expecting more about the static analysis tool. There was only one slide with an example of how to detect a pattern using static analysis and I found it hard to understand,  It is easy to say to [...]

Since I wrote a review of JTest, I decided to do a review of the other commercial product I tried in the Java static analysis family – Klocwork Installation I ran into some trouble installing the trial Eclipse plugin. I saw a zip file to use instead of the update site.  I then unzipped it [...]

I tried running Parasoft’s JTest against the modified JForum use by JavaRanch. The first thing I did was run all the static analysis rules and got over 47 thousand hits.  Now this doesn’t mean much as some of the rules are cosmetic things and some directly confict with each other. (Use “*” for imports and [...]