If you just start to write Java applications, the tool will help you to learn better programming practices by explaining you the reasons why the code should be written in a different way.

SpotBugs is valuable for both beginner and experienced programmers. Even if you think that the code will never run in the highlighted issue, in many cases the tool open your eyes on 'dirty' places in your code. SpotBugs has a very small number of false positives. SpotBugs can find an amazing number of different bug patterns, which are sometimes hard to debug or to reproduce. SpotBugs works similar to the Java compiler: as soon as you hit CTRL+S, Eclipse will compile the code and start incremental bug analysis. If not, here is the tool which (in few minutes) will give you the proof, that your code is not worth to be deployed at all, and a good reason to start testing your application and to review your code. If yes, then here is the tool which will find test failures and review issues even before you build your application - just as you type.

You use JUnit to test your code? You perform code reviews?

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SpotBugs is developed by an open source community and depends on the help from community. SpotBugs is the spiritual successor of FindBugs, carrying on from the point where FindBugs left off with support of its community. A quick plugin introduction is available at and a short video demo is available on YouTube. SpotBugs Eclipse Plugin integrates SpotBugs seamlessly with the most popular Java IDE and allows to run SpotBugs analysis incrementally on changed files or on demand per project. SpotBugs checks for more than 400 bug patterns, such as null pointer dereferences, infinite recursive loops, bad uses of the Java libraries and deadlocks. SpotBugs is a program which uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

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