1 Overview
Checkstyle is one of the leading industry proven code quality analyzer tools for java. It is mainly a development tool to help programmers to write java code adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking java code against the coding standards by eliminating the process of traditional checks by humans.
Few significant checks that it can perform on the java code are as mentioned below:
2 Key Features
The key features of Checkstyle are
3 Advantages
Checkstyle is one of the leading industry proven code quality analyzer tools for java. It is mainly a development tool to help programmers to write java code adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking java code against the coding standards by eliminating the process of traditional checks by humans.
Few significant checks that it can perform on the java code are as mentioned below:
- Annotation chec1ks
- Block checks
- Class design
- Usage of Imports
- Usage of Metrics
- Size violations
- Naming conventions
- Javadoc comments for classes, methods and attributes
- Limit the number of function parameters, line lengths etc.
- Presence of mandatory headers
- Good practices of class construction
- Duplicated code sections
- Multiple complexity measurements among which expressions
- White space characters etc.
2 Key Features
The key features of Checkstyle are
- This can be integrated into an IDE like Eclipse.
- Integration in build process (Ant or Maven)
- Highly configurable
- Support for any mavenized projects through Maven Checkstyle plug-in
- Generate reports with Maven Checkstyle plug-in
- Support for writing the custom checks
- Support for the java grammar
- Support for auditing events through its filters
- Command line tool
- Supports operating systems like windows, Solaris, UNIX, Linux etc.
3 Advantages
- Checkstyle helps the developers to comply with good programming practices which improve the code quality, readability, reusability and reduce the cost of development.
- Industry standard code quality analyzer tool
- Compliant with java coding standards
- Saves good amount of code review efforts