List of tools for static code analysis

Languages

Ada">Ada (programming language)">Ada

C">C (programming language)">C, [C++]

• Axivion Suite

C#">C Sharp (programming language)">C#

• Axivion Suite
• Fluid Attacks

[IEC 61131-3]

• CODESYS Static Analysis – integrated add-on for CODESYS

Java">Java (programming language)">Java

• Fluid Attacks

[JavaScript]

• ESLint – JavaScript syntax checker and formatter.
• Google's Closure Compiler – JavaScript optimizer that rewrites code to be faster and smaller, and checks use of native JavaScript functions.
• CodeScene – Behavioral analysis of code.
• Fluid Attacks
• JSHint – A community driven fork of JSLint.
• JSLint – JavaScript syntax checker and validator.
• Semgrep – A static analysis tool that helps expressing code standards and surfacing bugs early. A CI service and a rule library is also available.

[Objective-C], Objective-C++

• Clang – The free Clang project includes a static analyzer. As of version 3.2, this analyzer is included in Xcode.
• Infer – Developed by an engineering team at Facebook with open-source contributors. Targets null pointers, leaks, API usage and other lint checks. Available as open source on github.

Opa

• Opa includes its own static analyzer. As the language is intended for web application development, the strongly statically typed compiler checks the validity of high-level types for web data, and prevents by default many vulnerabilities such as XSS attacks and database code injections.

Packaging">Package management system">Packaging

• Lintian – Checks Debian software packages for common inconsistencies and errors.
• Rpmlint – Checks for common problems in rpm packages.

[Perl]

• Perl::Critic – A tool to help enforce common Perl best practices. Most best practices are based on Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices book.
• PerlTidy – Program that acts as a syntax checker and tester/enforcer for coding practices in Perl.
• Padre – An IDE for Perl that also provides static code analysis to check for common beginner errors.

[PL/SQL]

• TOAD – A PL/SQL development environment with a Code xPert component that reports on general code efficiency as well as specific programming issues.
• Visual Expert – A PL/SQL code analysis tool that reports on programming issues and helps understand and maintain complex code.

[PowerBuilder], PowerScript

• Visual Expert – A tool scanning PowerBuilder libraries for code inspection, Impact Analysis, Source Code documentation, Call trees, CRUD matrix.

Python">Python (programming language)">Python

• PyCharm – Cross-platform Python IDE with code inspections available for analyzing code on-the-fly in the editor and bulk analysis of the whole project.
• PyDev – Eclipse-based Python IDE with code analysis available on-the-fly in the editor or at save time.
• Pylint – Static code analyzer. Quite stringent; includes many stylistic warnings as well.
• Fluid Attacks
• Semgrep – Static code analyzer that helps expressing code standards and surfacing bugs early. A CI service and a rule library is also available.

[Transact-SQL]

• Visual Expert – A SQLServer code analysis tool that reports on programming issues and helps understand and maintain complex code.

Tools with duplicate code detection

• Axivion Suite

Formal methods tools

• Astrée – finds all potential runtime errors by abstract interpretation, can prove the absence of runtime errors and can prove functional assertions; tailored towards safety-critical C code.
• CodePeer – Statically determines and documents pre- and post-conditions for Ada subprograms; statically checks preconditions at all call sites.
• ECLAIR – Uses formal methods-based static code analysis techniques such as abstract interpretation and model checking combined with constraint satisfaction techniques to detect or prove the absence of certain run time errors in source code.
• ESC/Java and ESC/Java2 – Based on Java Modeling Language, an enriched version of Java
• Frama-C – An open-source analysis framework for C, based on the ANSI/ISO C Specification Language. Its main techniques include abstract interpretation, deductive verification and runtime monitoring.
• KeY – analysis platform for Java based on theorem proving with specifications in the Java Modeling Language; can generate test cases as counterexamples; stand-alone GUI or Eclipse integration
• MALPAS – A formal methods tool that uses directed graphs and regular algebra to prove that software under analysis correctly meets its mathematical specification.
• Polyspace – Uses abstract interpretation, a formal methods based technique, to detect and prove the absence of certain run time errors in source code for C/C++, and Ada
• SPARK Toolset including the SPARK Examiner – Based on the SPARK language, a subset of Ada.