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Tue, 01 Mar 2005
This is an archived blog post. I've switched to using WordPress as my blogging software and have not migrated all my old posts. I believe strongly in not letting an old link die, so this page continues to work. Please do visit mikemason.ca/blog to read newer posts.
Finding Bugs Is Easy
…or so say the makers of FindBugs, an open-source bug detector for Java. When I’m asked to improve the code quality on a project often the first thing I do is to search for “obviously” bad code. By this I mean I look for stuff like String construction (you never need this in Java), incorrect use of static (makes testing hard, could be a sign people are using singletons), and a few others.
FindBugs takes this approach a step further using automated detectors that look for dodgy code. They work by scanning the compiled Java bytecode and looking for suspicious patterns. Running this against my current project found a multitude of sins, my favourite being the “looks right but is definitely buggy” covariant equals. Next best is the “database resource not closed” detector, and the “questionable reference comparison” detectory – try manually finding bugs caused by Integer object comparison using == instead of equals()…
FindBugs is has definitely found a place in my toolbox, and I’ll be running it regularly to avoid nasty suprises.
Posted 00:39, 01 Mar 2005.
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