FindBugs
The new home of the FindBugs project (by findbugsproject)
Spotbugs
SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. (by spotbugs)
| FindBugs | Spotbugs | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 19 | |
| 762 | 3,601 | |
| 0.3% | 0.8% | |
| 2.0 | 9.6 | |
| about 1 month ago | 8 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| - | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
FindBugs
Posts with mentions or reviews of FindBugs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning FindBugs yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Spotbugs
Posts with mentions or reviews of Spotbugs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
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We Have Code Quality At Home: Open Source Java Code Quality Tools
SpotBugs is an open source static anlysis tool. "SpotBugs uses static analysis to inspect Java bytecode for occurrences of bug patterns." This means that SpotBugs runs against the compiled source source code, rather than raw Java files. Because it analyses bytecode, it can catch some types of bugs that source code analysis would not catch.
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Handling EI_EXPOSE_REP & EI_EXPOSE_REP2 👨🏻💻
SpotBugs is a great tool for static code analysis. Recently I got two similar warnings in one of the codebases I work on and I had to fix it.
- Primeiros passos no desenvolvimento Java em 2023: um guia particular
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Static Code Analyzer for JAVA development: any recommendations ??
SpotBugs is pretty good.
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Ask HN: What is a modern Java environment?
PMD, Spotbugs, Nullaway: Java linting/static analysis (https://pmd.github.io, https://spotbugs.github.io, https://github.com/uber/NullAway)
- What are some useful static analyzers for Java?
- Go CheckLocks Analyzer
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Is there a tool to track CVEs for the software that we use?
While at it you could also point them to static code analyzers such as error_prone, spotbugs and pmd (use all 3 at once - they complement each other in detecting different issues).
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SpotBugs supports SARIF that supports integration with other SAST tools
First, it's better to use SpotBugs 4.4.1 and above, that includes a fix to make SARIF report compatible with Github code scanning API requirements.
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Needing to run GUI application from java docker image
RUN wget https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs/releases/download/4.4.1/spotbugs-4.4.1.tgz
What are some alternatives?
When comparing FindBugs and Spotbugs you can also consider the following projects:
Error Prone - Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors
SonarQube - Continuous Inspection
PMD - An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.