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Java By Comparison
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Java By Comparison

by Simon Harrer, Linus Dietz, Jörg Lenhard
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 52m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Use Static Code Analysis Tools

In the Olympic discipline of the high jump, the athlete has to jump over a bar, and during a competition, the bar is raised higher and higher until only a single athlete can jump over it. The world record is 2.45 m. Static analysis tools provide such a bar for the quality of your code. They investigate your code and look for potential bugs or code smells. That’s more than just compiling and running the tests; hence it’s a higher bar you have to jump over. It’s also one step closer to a realistic development and production environment. These tools are usually efficient and quick to use. Even if they’re not perfect and might report false positives, they can help you catch mistakes that don’t break your code but that ...

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