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PMD

PMD

#42in Code Review
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What is PMD?

It is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector.

PMD is a tool in the Code Review category of a tech stack.

Key Features

supports multiple languagesenforce a coding standard for your codebasebuilt-in checks

PMD Pros & Cons

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PMD Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to PMD?

ESLint

ESLint

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Prettier

Prettier

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.

TSLint

TSLint

An extensible static analysis tool that checks TypeScript code for readability, maintainability, and functionality errors. It is widely supported across modern editors & build systems and can be customized with your own lint rules, configurations, and formatters.

SonarQube

SonarQube

SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.

Stylelint

Stylelint

A mighty, modern CSS linter that helps you enforce consistent conventions and avoid errors in your stylesheets.

RuboCop

RuboCop

RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide.

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PMD Integrations

Gradle, Windows, Java, Linux, macOS are some of the popular tools that integrate with PMD. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with PMD.

Gradle
Gradle
Windows
Windows
Java
Java
Linux
Linux
macOS
macOS

PMD Discussions

Discover why developers choose PMD. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Joshua Dean Küpper
Joshua Dean Küpper

CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Oct 24, 2019

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We use PMD alongside Checkstyle and FindBugs (Spotbugs) for our static code analysis, as a standard stage in all of our pipelines. PMD offers us insight into various optimization possibilities, best-practice alignment, coding convention compliance and general problems with our code.

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