Paul Duvall published an article, Improving code with Eclipse plugins, the fifth installment of his “Automation for the people” series by IBM developerWorks, where he provides examples of installing, configuring, and using static analysis Eclipse plugins focused on helping developers in key areas such as:

  • Coding standards
  • Code duplication
  • Code coverage
  • Dependency analysis
  • Complexity monitoring

These code analysis areas can be uncovered with five helpful plugins:

Regardless if you chose one of the profiled tools or other Eclipse plugins, incorporating them into your work environment will contribute to real-time visual feedback on the state of the quality of your code so that you may prevent problems early in the development life cycle.