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What is FindBugs?

Static analysis tool for finding bugs in Java code.

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Static analysis tool for finding bugs in Java code.

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Year Founded
1999
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I have used Findbugs extensively while working on my thesis project where in it was necessary to detect dodgy code, potential issues related to mul...
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"FindBugs helps to protect as well from security breaches & Code quality."
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What do you like best about FindBugs?

It's easy and useful tool that run with a simple command. Make my work easy on my day by day, user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

Sometimes find not relevant bugs, should be configured by developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Clean and quality code, show unused code blocks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

Finding the bugs quickly and generate the possible result with multiple category. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

Need more use case for finding the static code bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

NULL check, String security check, Exception handling etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

FindBugs helps to protect as well from security breaches & Code quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

Sometime in a static code quality check it reduces the results & again report back like it was there.... so it needs to be consistent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using it for code quality, report generate, define severity level, to measure security check & to protect the app from unwanted attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

Easy to use, easy to plugin, understandable insights Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

more security issues should be covered so that it will be more efficient in all aspects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FindBugs:

FindBug is a good tool to be used in development cycle or during code reviews. FindBug plugins for CI tools and IDEs are also available which that makes the use real easy. FindBug identifies and provides very good insight about common software bugs and also provides some support for security issues that can be fixed at code level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Findug for identifying common coding problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

Categories and systematic view of bugs, that needa to be catered by developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

Jenkins support for findbugs have been removed in new releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

bugs scanning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

Gives details on why there is an error so you can fix it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

Can become too focused on locating code errors, that you lose sight of how best to preventing runtime errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some of the best uses is simple context errors such as misspellings or leaving out a period or semicolon. FindBugs makes it easier to locate simpler problems like that without having to browse the entire document. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

It certainly helps improvement of code quality. It’s recommended to use it along with SonarQube in your CI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

I encountered a few false positives. But it’s something that cannot be helped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Maintaining code quality of such a huge enterprise application. As more people are involved in the project, automatic static analysis like FindBugs is necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

Good tool find bugs in code and report earlier.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

there is no good UI , we need to depend on other third party tool to configure the report .. It will be good if the tool has all in single package without depending on other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

1, Java code issues

2, Vulnerability issues

3. Checkstyle

4. SQL issues.. etc.., Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

Free. Integration with IDE and Build Process. Variety of plugins available to integrate like FindSecBugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

Requires manual integration and changing build files. Can take effort for visual customization in reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FindBugs:

In the beginning, it will require few iterations to fine-tune. Later it will run for years without any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code quality and security issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FindBugs?

Easy to use, can find some easily overlooked problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FindBugs?

Accuracy needs to be improved. Many low-priority errors can sometimes be annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FindBugs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some spelling errors, public methods are abstractly reused Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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