Shaun Abram
Technology and Leadership Blog
FindBugs
Came across this really neat tool that can actually find bugs in your code. It uses ‘static analysis’ to find instances of bug patterns – code instances that are likely to be errors. I was pretty skeptical until I ran it on some code and was impressed by the results. It found loads of possible problems. I’ll definitely be using it again.
Check it out at http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
Update: Found recommendations for another tool called JLint, which is supposed to be particularly good for spotting potential deadlocks so perhaps worth using when testing threaded code.
Tags: Testing