Code Analysis Tools

[Lost User]

Would you like to hear something like that from your son one day? :)

At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity

[peterchen]

I'm known for eloquent mockery, and if *I* find it entertaining, it's free.

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If you are asking for static code analysis for C++: PVS-Studio, hands down, feature-wise. I've recently compared the most promising offers on our code base, and it beats them on quality diagnostics, signal-to-noise and use comfort. It's elephanting expensive and the licence is short of tort. I understand it's a small amrket, but still.

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[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

We're using Coverity. It seems ok.

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[Lost User]

For which language? we were using coverty but didn't bother to renew the very expensive licence. I want to look at attempting some more domain specific code analysis by integrating something into llvm but i hsvent explored that idea much.

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

PCLint and Understand.

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[Mike Diack]

For C/C++, I'd rate Gimpel Software's PC-Lint very highly and Riverblade's Visual Lint is an excellent way of integrating it into Visual Studio. Both are significantly cheaper than most similar tools: http://www.gimpel.com/html/index.htm[^] and http://www.riverblade.co.uk/products/visual_lint/index.html[^] I've been using them for years, personally and professionally and rate them very highly. Mike

[AndyStephens]

Resharper + Stylecop gets my vote too, if you are in the .Net world.

[tgrt]

I like nDepend. I was given a license to do a review. I wanted to dislike it, because I have a general distrust of tools like that. However, I came out liking it quite a bit; especially, the dependency matrix view.

[tom1443]

Coverity - expensive and complicated. PCLint/FlexeLint - simpler and effective.

[HoyaSaxa93]

DevExpress tools are quite good. There are similar issues as ReSharper i.e. Turning off rules for things that are intentional but I am quite happy with it. It was also very easy to learn with lots of videos on their site and the "intelligent" Guide add-in for Visual Studio.

[ettl martin]

We are using cppcheck, its open source and easy to extend. Check it out :)

[KP Lee]

CDP1802 wrote:

like to hear something like that from your son

about outdated 64 bit technology?

[KP Lee]

Haven't tried StyleCop. If it would complain about objects going out of scope in C#, I'd certainly agree with your assessment.