Checkstyle VS find-sec-bugs

Compare Checkstyle vs find-sec-bugs and see what are their differences.

Checkstyle

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program. (by checkstyle)

find-sec-bugs

The SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications and Android applications. (Also work with Kotlin, Groovy and Scala projects) (by find-sec-bugs)
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Checkstyle find-sec-bugs
15 8
8,132 2,201
0.8% 1.1%
9.9 6.1
about 13 hours ago about 2 months ago
Java Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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Checkstyle

Posts with mentions or reviews of Checkstyle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.

find-sec-bugs

Posts with mentions or reviews of find-sec-bugs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Checkstyle and find-sec-bugs you can also consider the following projects:

spotless - Keep your code spotless

Spotbugs - SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

SonarQube - Continuous Inspection

semgrep-rules - Semgrep rules registry

snyk - Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities. [Moved to: https://github.com/snyk/cli]

Error Prone - Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

static-analysis - ⚙️ A curated list of static analysis (SAST) tools and linters for all programming languages, config files, build tools, and more. The focus is on tools which improve code quality.

infer - A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C