This month’s theme is Java 10 to tie in with the release of the new Java version. Despite being only 6 months since Java 9, there are some really exciting new features. I am going to look at the experimental JIT compiler that is part of Project Graal. What is Project Graal? Project Graal was…
What is static program analysis? Static analysis provides testing against code bases and binaries without the execution of any code. IDEs do this too by highlighting areas of code they do not like. Ensuring code quality and identifying issues without running the code can save a huge amount of time for your team; we recommend…
Recently I have been looking at our current test suite looking for ways to improve our own tests. As we use Bitbucket we have spent some time looking into Pipelines to improve how we run our tests. Whilst Pipelines is a very useful tool we have found there to be limitations that would make its…
This month our posts are focusing on code quality and we have already covered how you can use IDEs to improve your code to higher standard. Building on that this post will be about how you can maintain your current code quality level, and the easiest way to do that is to properly test it…
In my previous article, I worked on code quality in NetBeans IDE. In this article, I am using IntelliJ IDEA to improve my Java code. IDEA has plugins to support PMD and FindBugs and SonarCube but it also comes with its own static analysis capabilities. The Analyse menu gives you the option to Inspect code…
