73 Go Static Analysis Tools

Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes

Free, open-source lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find and block bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

Examines Go source code and reports suspicious.

SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.

Alternative to `Go Meta Linter`: GolangCI-Lint is a linters aggregator.

Go static analysis that specialises in finding bugs, simplifying code and improving performance.

Checks if the code is properly formatted and could not be further simplified.

Better Code Hub checks your GitHub codebase against 10 engineering guidelines devised by the authority in software quality, Software Improvement Group.

CodeScene is a quality visualization tool for software. Prioritize technical debt, detect delivery risks, and measure organizational aspects. Fully automated.

In-depth static analysis to find issues in verticals of bug risks, security, anti-patterns, performance, documentation and style. Native integrations with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Less than 5% false positives.

Checks missing or unreferenced package imports.

Prints out coding style mistakes in Go source code.

Check that error return values are used.

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

Finds unused code.

Reports variables that may have been unintentionally shadowed.

Package ast declares the types used to represent syntax trees for Go packages.

Inspects source code for security problems by scanning the Go AST.

Detect ineffectual assignments in Go code.

Finds commonly misspelled English words.

An automated code reviewing tool. Improving developers' productivity.

Universal code beautifier with a GitHub app. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Vue, C++, Go, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Markdown, and more.

Find inefficiently packed structs.

Checks whether HTTP response body is closed.

Automated code review tool integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab (even self-hosted). Available for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Docker, and more. (open-source free)

Reports potentially duplicated code.

Identify and remediate cyber threats in a blazingly fast, collaborative environment, with seamless integration in your SDLC. Python, C\C++, Java, C#, PHP and more.

Find unused struct fields.

Detect redundant type conversions.

Wrap and fix Go errors with the new %w verb directive. This tool analyzes fmt.Errorf() calls and reports calls that contain a verb directive that is different than the new %w verb directive introduced in Go v1.13. It's also capable of rewriting calls to use the new %w wrap verb directive.

Go source code linter that maintains checks which are currently not implemented in other linters.

Finds repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant.

Syntactic and semantic analysis similar to the Go compiler.

Comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests. Supports Coffeescript, Go, HAML, JavaScript, Ruby, SCSS and Swift.

Report long lines.

Detect structs that would take less memory if their fields were sorted.

Finds unused arguments in function declarations.

SAST tool which is capable of identifying vulnerabilities and undocumented features. The analyzer scans the source code and executables without debug info (i.e. binaries). Supports: Java/Scala/Kotlin, PHP, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, VBScript, HTML5, Python, Perl, C/C++, Objective-C/Swift, PL/SQL, T-SQL, ABAP, 1C, Apex, Go, Ruby, Groovy, Delphi, VBA, Visual Basic 6, Solidity, Vyper, COBOL.

Vulnerability scanner for dependencies of node.js apps (free for Open Source Projects).

Reports known vulnerabilities in common dependencies and recommends updated packages to minimize breaking changes

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

Find unused function parameters.

Creates reports of over 400 rule patterns for feature detection (e.g. the use of cryptography or version control in apps).

Code quality and technical debt management platform that supports 10+ languages.

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

CI/CD-agnostic DevSecOps platform which combines industry-leading fuzzing engines for finding bugs and visualizing code coverage

Static analyser for finding deadlocks in Go.

Finds assignments/declarations with too many blank identifiers.

Get info on length of functions in a Go package.

Analyzer that helps you to make your Go programs more consistent.

Calculate cyclomatic complexities of functions in Go source code.

Concurrently runs many linters and normalises their output to a report.

An interactive tool to analyze Golang goroutine dump.

Deep code analysis for GitHub and Bitbucket to find security vulnerabilities and critical code quality issues (using Semmle QL). Automatic code review for pull requests; free for public repositories.

Finds naked returns.

Enables code auditors and security teams to interactively investigate their unique code bases to find business logic flaws and technical vulnerabilities that traditional SASTs cannot. This is done by enabling the analyst to write their own custom queries. Can find hard-coded secrets, authentication issues, and malicious code like rootkits and backdoors.

Finds slice declarations that could potentially be preallocated.

A tool for posting review comments from any linter in any code hosting service.

Fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go. Drop-in replacement of golint.

Static analysis tool for Golang that protects against SQL injections.

A proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub.

Scan is a free open-source DevSecOps platform for detecting security issues in source code and dependencies. It supports a broad range of languages and CI/CD pipelines.

Identify vulnerabilities that are unique to your code base before they reach production. Leverages the Code Property Graph (CPG) to run its analyses concurrently in a single graph of graphs. Automatically finds business logic flaws in dev like hardcoded secrets and logic bombs

Multi-language cloud-based static code analysis. History, trends, security hot-spots, pull request analysis and more. Free for open source.

Combination of multiple linters to install as a GitHub Action.

Find unused global variables and constants.

Enforces empty lines at the right places.

Show location of test failures from the stdlib testing module.

Checks that no globals are present.

Intelligent software analytics platform that identifies design issues, code issues, duplication and metrics. Supports Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Kotlin and more.

Commercial Static Code Analysis which doesn't require pre-compilation.