Interesting trends are happening around Static Analysis and Code Quality. The tools vendors closely looking at each of the code quality metrics and merging them to have a better metric. We can see the pattern from Agitar by coming up with CRAP4J. Here is one more vendor coming up with the tools on Code Quality and Static Analysis.
The AppPerfect comes with a suite of products around code quality metrics and improvements. DevTest4J is a suite of products designed to help you build and test high-performance applications during the development phase of the product life-cycle.
I have come across yet another static analysis tool for Java programs. ENERGY is a free static analysis tool to measure code quality & presents overall status on the health of source code. Energy comes with a code quality metric by combining the bug patterns on the source code and rates it between 1 to 10. The tool tries to identify the symptoms via static analysis and then publish a rating. How it works is an interesting insight.
Check the following video to learn more about the tool.
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