104 Java 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

Static and dynamic analysis tool supporting more than 25 languages and direct IDE integration. Free hosting for Open Source projects available on request. Free academic licenses available.

A fast, open-source, static analysis tool for finding bugs and enforcing code standards at editor, commit, and CI time. Its rules look like the code you already write; no abstract syntax trees or regex wrestling. Supports 17+ languages.

SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.

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

Checks Java source and byte code for incorrect uses of cryptographic APIs.

Vulnerability Scanner and Risk Evaluation for containers, serverless and hosts at runtime. ThreatMapper generates runtime BOMs from dependencies and operating system packages, matches against multiple threat feeds, scans for unprotected secrets, and scores issues based on severity and risk-of-exploit.

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

A ([conditionally free](https://pvs-studio.com/en/order/open-source-license) for FOSS and individual developers) static analysis of C, C++, C# and Java code. For advertising purposes [you can propose a large FOSS project for analysis by PVS employees](https://github.com/viva64/pvs-studio-check-list). Supports CWE mapping, OWASP ASVS, MISRA, AUTOSAR and SEI CERT coding standards.

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

Synopsys Coverity supports 20 languages and over 70 frameworks including Ruby on rails, Scala, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Fortran, C, C++, C#, VB.NET.

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

DeepCode was acquired by Snyk is now Snyk Code.

A static analyzer for Java, C and Objective-C

Modern repositories include many technologies, each with its own set of linters. With 30+ linters and counting, Trunk makes it dead-simple to identify, install, configure, and run the right linters, static analyzers, and formatters for all your repos.

Unit test your Java or Kotlin architecture.

Checking Java source code for adherence to a Code Standard or set of validation rules (best practices).

A source code analyzer for Java, Salesforce Apex, Javascript, PLSQL, XML, XSL and others.

Pluggable type-checking for Java.

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

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)

Quality and Security Static analysis for C/C++, Java and C#.

Scanmycode - Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report

Spoon is a metaprogramming library to analyze and transform Java source code (incl Java 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14). It parses source files to build a well-designed AST with powerful analysis and transformation API. Can be integrated in Maven and Gradle.

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

Advanced, whole program, deep path, static analysis of C, C++, Java and C# with easy-to-understand explanations and code and path visualization.

Commercial Static Code Analysis which generates exploits to verify vulnerabilities.

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.

Tracks down error-prone code locations, style violations, cloned or dead code, cyclic dependencies and more for C/C++, C#/.NET, Java and Ada 83/Ada 95.

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

Deep code analysis - semantic queries and dataflow for several languages with VSCode plugin support.

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors.

The SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications and Android applications. (Also work with Kotlin, Groovy and Scala projects)

A commercial static analysis platform that supports the scanning of C/C++, C#, VB.NET, VB6, ABAP/BSP, ActionScript, Apex, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, VB Script, Cobol, ColdFusion, HTML, Java, JS, JSP, MXML/Flex, Objective-C, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Python (2.6, 2.7), Ruby (1.9.3), Swift, Scala, VB, and XML.

A framework for analyzing and transforming Java and Android applications.

Based on IntelliJ IDEA, and comes bundled with tools for Android including Android Lint.

Google Style Reformat.

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.

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.

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

Automated Code Reviews and Technical Debt management platform that supports 12+ languages.

Static analysis for C/C++/C#, PHP and Java.

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

Commercial Static Code Analysis.

Beautify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, SQL, and more in Atom editor.

Calculates Chidamber and Kemerer object-oriented metrics by processing the bytecode of compiled Java files.

Automated code analysis tool to deal with technical depth. Integrates with Bitbucket and Gitlab. (free for Open Source Projects)

Doop is a declarative framework for static analysis of Java/Android programs, centered on pointer analysis algorithms. Doop provides a large variety of analyses and also the surrounding scaffolding to run an analysis end-to-end (fact generation, processing, statistics, etc.).

A plugin for FindBugs with additional bug detectors.

Lizard is an extensible Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for many programming languages including C/C++ (doesn't require all the header files or Java imports). It also does copy-paste detection (code clone detection/code duplicate detection) and many other forms of static code analysis. Counts lines of code without comments, CCN (cyclomatic complexity number), token count of functions, parameter count of functions.

Type-based null-pointer checker with low build-time overhead; an [Error Prone](http://errorprone.info/) plugin.

A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

Static code analysis tool for Java,C,C++,C#,Go.

Language-independent tool for massive, automatic, programmable refactoring based on simple pattern definitions.

Code review tool with static code analysis and code-aware navigation for Java, PHP, JavaScript and Kotlin.

WhiteHat Scout (for Developers) combined with WhiteHat Sentinel Source (for Operations) supporting WhiteHat Top 40 and OWASP Top 10.

Commercial Static Code Analysis which runs locally, but uploads the results to its cloud for presentation.

Calculates Chidamber and Kemerer object-oriented metrics by processing the source Java files.

A classpath and module path scanner for querying or visualizing class metadata or class relatedness.

Language independent framework for creating code analysis - supports [over 60 languages](https://coala.io/languages) by default.

Provides a unified interface to sort and act on the issues it finds.

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

Automated SAST code reviews driven by security, supports 15+ languages and includes security training.

Analyses the comprehensive dependencies of code elements for Java, C/C++, Ruby.

DesigniteJava supports detection of various architecture, design, and implementation smells along with computation of various code quality metrics.

Detects and forbids invocations of specific method/class/field (like reading from a text stream without a charset). Maven/Gradle/Ant compatible.

Regexp based customizable linter.

Grep rough audit - source code auditing tool.

Comes bundled with a lot of inspections for Java and Kotlin and includes tools for refactoring, formatting and more.

Measure, query and visualize your code and avoid unexpected issues, technical debt and complexity.

Bounded model-checker for Java (bytecode), verifies user-defined assertions, standard assertions, several coverage metric analyses.

Commercial Static Code Analysis system doesn't require building the source code or pre-compilation.

Checks dependencies for known, publicly disclosed, vulnerabilities.

Quick automated code review of your changes. Supports more than 40 runners for various languages, including Clang, Elixir, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby and more.

Combines a few (pre-configured) static analysis tools (checkstyle, PMD, Findbugs, ...).

A static file linter that allows you to write custom rules using regular expressions (RegEx).

A static source code analyser for vulnerabilities in PHP scripts.

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

Security code analyzer for C# and VB.NET. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc. Integrates into Visual Studio 2015 and newer. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc.

Quickly find and remediate high-priority security issues. Semgrep Supply Chain prioritizes the 2% of vulnerabilities that are reachable from your code.

Sigrid helps you to improve your software by measuring your system's code quality, and then compares the results against a benchmark of thousands of industry systems to give you concrete advice on areas where you can improve.

A tool that finds similarities between or within files to support you encountering DRY principle violations.

Snyk Code finds security vulnerabilities based on AI. Its speed of analysis allow us to analyse your code in real time and deliver results when you hit the save button in your IDE. Supported languages are Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go and TypeScript. Integrations with GitHub, BitBucket and Gitlab. It is free to try and part of the Snyk platform also covering SCA, containers and IaC.

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

Suite of static analysis tools consisting of the three components Sotoarc (Architecture Analysis), Sotograph (Quality Analysis), and Sotoreport (Quality report). Helps find differences between architecture and implementation, interface violations (e.g. external access of private parts of subsystems, detection of all classes, files, packages and subsystems which are strongly coupled by cyclical relationships and more. The Sotograph product family runs on Windows and Linux.

Static Code Analysis for C/C++, Java, C#, Python, and RPG III and RPG IV versions (including free-form).

A commercial static analysis platform that allows for scanning of multiple languages (C/C++, Android, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Fortran, and Swift).

Tencent Cloud Code Analysis (TCA for short, code-named CodeDog inside the company early) is a comprehensive platform for code analysis and issue tracking. TCA consist of three components, server, web and client. It integrates of a number of self-developed tools, and also supports dynamic integration of code analysis tools in various programming languages.

Find flaws in binaries and bytecode without requiring source. Support all major programming languages: Java, .NET, JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, C, C++ and more.

Java library for parsing report files from static code analysis. Used by a bunch of Jenkins, Maven and Gradle plugins.

Static analysis capabilities for Java bytecode and related languages and for JavaScript.

Static code analysis for binary and source code - Java/Scala, PHP, Javascript, C#, PL/SQL, Python, T-SQL, C/C++, ObjectiveC/Swift, Visual Basic 6.0, Ruby, Delphi, ABAP, HTML5 and Solidity.

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

Emerge is a source code and dependency visualizer that can be used to gather insights about source code structure, metrics, dependencies and complexity of software projects. After scanning the source code of a project it provides you an interactive web interface to explore and analyze your project by using graph structures.

Find security vulnerabilities, variants, and critical code quality issues using CodeQL queries over source code. Automatic PR code review; free for open source. Formerly semmle. It supports public Git repositories hosted on Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub.com, GitLab.com.

Regex-based static analysis tool for Visual Studio, VS Code, and Sublime Text - C/C++, C#, PHP, ASP, Python, Ruby, Java, and others.

Code visualization tool that provides code analysis, standards testing, metrics, graphing, dependency analysis and more for Ada, VHDL, and others.

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.

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.