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Static program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs — Wikipedia

This is a collection of static analysis tools and code quality checkers. Pull requests are very welcome!

  • ©️ stands for proprietary software. All other tools are Open Source.
  • ⚠️ indicates that the community does not recommend to use this tool for new projects anymore as it is outdated or no longer maintained.

Also check out the sister project, awesome-dynamic-analysis.

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Programming Languages

ABAP

  • abaplint - Linter for ABAP, written in TypeScript.
  • abapOpenChecks - Enhances the SAP Code Inspector with new and customizable checks.

Ada

  • Codepeer - detects run-time and logic errors
  • Polyspace for Ada ©️ - provide code verification that proves the absence of overflow, divide-by-zero, out-of-bounds array access, and certain other run-time errors in source code.
  • SPARK ©️ - Static analysis and formal verification toolset for Ada
  • Understand ©️ - IDE that provides code analysis, standards testing, metrics, graphing, dependency analysis and more for Ada and VHDL.

Awk

  • gawk --lint - warns about constructs that are dubious or nonportable to other awk implementations.

C/C++

  • CBMC - bounded model-checker for C programs, user-defined assertions, standard assertions, several coverage metric analyses
  • clang-tidy - clang static analyser
  • CMetrics - Measures size and complexity for C files
  • Codecheker - static analysis of C/C++ code, with web GUI
  • CodeSonar from GrammaTech ©️ - Advanced, whole program, deep path, static analysis of C and C++ with easy-to-understand explanations and code and path visualization.
  • Corrode - Semi-automatic translation from C to Rust. Could reveal bugs in the original implementation by showing Rust compiler warnings and errors.
  • cppcheck - static analysis of C/C++ code
  • CppDepend ©️ - Measure, query and visualize your code and avoid unexpected issues, technical debt and complexity.
  • cpplint - automated C++ checker that follows Google's style guide
  • cqmetrics - quality metrics for C code
  • CScout - complexity and quality metrics for for C and C preprocessor code
  • flawfinder - finds possible security weaknesses
  • flint++ - cross-platform, zero-dependency port of flint, a lint program for C++ developed and used at Facebook.
  • Frama-C - a sound and extensible static analyzer for C code
  • Helix QAC ©️ - Enterprise-grade static analysis for embedded software. Supports MISRA, CERT, and AUTOSAR coding standards.
  • IKOS - a sound static analyzer for C/C++ code based on LLVM
  • include-gardener - a static analyzer for C/C++/Obj-C to create a graph (in dot or graphml format) which shows all #include relations of a given set of files.
  • LDRA ©️ - a tool suite including static analysis (TBVISION) to various standards including MISRA C & C++, JSF++ AV, CWE, CERT C, CERT C++ & Custom Rules.
  • oclint - static analysis of C/C++ code
  • Polyspace Bug Finder ©️ - identifies run-time errors, concurrency issues, security vulnerabilities, and other defects in C and C++ embedded software.
  • Polyspace Code Prover ©️ - provide code verification that proves the absence of overflow, divide-by-zero, out-of-bounds array access, and certain other run-time errors in C and C++ source code.
  • scan-build - Analyzes C/C++ code using LLVM at compile-time
  • splint - Annotation-assisted static program checker
  • SVF - a static tool that enables scalable and precise interprocedural dependence analysis for C and C++ programs.
  • vera++ - Vera++ is a programmable tool for verification, analysis and transformation of C++ source code.

C#

  • .NET Analyzers - An organization for the development of analyzers (diagnostics and code fixes) using the .NET Compiler Platform.
  • Code Analysis Rule Collection - Contains a set of diagnostics, code fixes and refactorings built on the Microsoft .NET Compiler Platform "Roslyn".
  • code-cracker - An analyzer library for C# and VB that uses Roslyn to produce refactorings, code analysis, and other niceties.
  • CodeRush ©️ - Code creation, debugging, navigation, refactoring, analysis and visualization tools that use the Roslyn engine in Visual Studio 2015 and up.
  • CSharpEssentials - C# Essentials is a collection of Roslyn diagnostic analyzers, code fixes and refactorings that make it easy to work with C# 6 language features.
  • Designite ©️ - Designite is a software design quality assessment tool. It supports detection of implementation and design smells, computation of various code quality metrics, and trend analysis.
  • Gendarme - Gendarme inspects programs and libraries that contain code in ECMA CIL format (Mono and .NET).
  • NDepend ©️ - Measure, query and visualize your code and avoid unexpected issues, technical debt and complexity.
  • Puma Scan - Puma Scan provides real time secure code analysis for common vulnerabilities (XSS, SQLi, CSRF, LDAPi, crypto, deserialization, etc.) as development teams write code in Visual Studio.
  • Refactoring Essentials - The free Visual Studio 2015 extension for C# and VB.NET refactorings, including code best practice analyzers.
  • ReSharper ©️ - Extends Visual Studio with on-the-fly code inspections for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript and other technologies.
  • Roslyn Security Guard - Project that focuses on the identification of potential vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), CSRF, cryptography weaknesses, hardcoded passwords and many more.
  • Roslynator - A collection of 190+ analyzers and 190+ refactorings for C#, powered by Roslyn.
  • Security Code Scan - Security code analyzer for C# and VB.NET. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc.
  • SonarLint for Visual Studio - SonarLint is an extension for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 that provides on-the-fly feedback to developers on new bugs and quality issues injected into .NET code.
  • VSDiagnostics - A collection of static analyzers based on Roslyn that integrates with VS.
  • Wintellect.Analyzers - .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") diagnostic analyzers and code fixes.

Crystal

  • ameba - A static code analysis tool for Crystal
  • crystal - The Crystal compiler has built-in linting functionality.

Dlang

  • D-scanner - D-Scanner is a tool for analyzing D source code

Elixir

  • credo - A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching.
  • sobelow - Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework

Erlang

  • elvis - Erlang Style Reviewer

F#

Fortran

Go

  • deadcode - Finds unused code.
  • dingo-hunter - Static analyser for finding deadlocks in Go.
  • dupl - Reports potentially duplicated code.
  • errcheck - Check that error return values are used.
  • flen - Get info on length of functions in a Go package.
  • gas - Inspects source code for security problems by scanning the Go AST.
  • Go Meta Linter - Concurrently run Go lint tools and normalise their output.
  • go tool vet --shadow - Reports variables that may have been unintentionally shadowed.
  • go vet - Examines Go source code and reports suspicious.
  • go-consistent - Analyzer that helps you to make your Go programs more consistent.
  • go-critic - Go source code linter that maintains checks which are currently not implemented in other linters.
  • go-staticcheck - go vet on steroids, similar to ReSharper for C#.
  • go/ast - Package ast declares the types used to represent syntax trees for Go packages.
  • goconst - Finds repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant.
  • gocyclo - Calculate cyclomatic complexities of functions in Go source code.
  • gofmt -s - Checks if the code is properly formatted and could not be further simplified.
  • goimports - Checks missing or unreferenced package imports.
  • GolangCI-Lint - Alternative to Go Meta Linter: GolangCI-Lint is a linters aggregator.
  • golint - Prints out coding style mistakes in Go source code.
  • goreporter - concurrently runs many linters and normalises their output to a report.
  • goroutine-inspect - An interactive tool to analyze Golang goroutine dump.
  • gosimple - Report simplifications in code.
  • gotype - Syntactic and semantic analysis similar to the Go compiler.
  • ineffassign - Detect ineffectual assignments in Go code
  • interfacer - Suggest narrower interfaces that can be used.
  • lll - Report long lines.
  • maligned - Detect structs that would take less memory if their fields were sorted.
  • megacheck - Run staticcheck, gosimple and unused, sharing work.
  • misspell - Finds commonly misspelled English words.
  • nakedret - Finds naked returns.
  • nargs - Finds unused arguments in function declarations.
  • prealloc - Finds slice declarations that could potentially be preallocated.
  • revive - Fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go. Drop-in replacement of golint.
  • safesql - Static analysis tool for Golang that protects against SQL injections.
  • structcheck - Find unused struct fields.
  • test - Show location of test failures from the stdlib testing module.
  • testify - Show location of failed testify assertions.
  • unconvert - Detect redundant type conversions.
  • unimport - Finds unnecessary import aliases
  • unparam - Find unused function parameters.
  • unused - Find unused variables.
  • varcheck - Find unused global variables and constants.

Groovy

  • CodeNarc - a static analysis tool for Groovy source code, enabling monitoring and enforcement of many coding standards and best practices

Haskell

  • HLint - HLint is a tool for suggesting possible improvements to Haskell code.
  • Weeder - A tool for detecting dead exports or package imports in Haskell code.

Haxe

  • Haxe Checkstyle - A static analysis tool to help developers write Haxe code that adheres to a coding standard.

Java

  • ArchUnit - Unit test your Java architecture
  • Checker Framework - Pluggable type-checking for Java http://checkerframework.org/
  • checkstyle - checking Java source code for adherence to a Code Standard or set of validation rules (best practices)
  • ck - calculates Chidamber and Kemerer object-oriented metrics by processing the source Java files
  • ckjm - calculates Chidamber and Kemerer object-oriented metrics by processing the bytecode of compiled Java files
  • ClassGraph - a classpath and module path scanner for querying or visualizing class metadata or class relatedness
  • CogniCrypt - checks Java source and byte code for incorrect uses of cryptographic APIs
  • Error-prone - Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors
  • fb-contrib - A plugin for FindBugs with additional bug detectors
  • Find Security Bugs - IDE/SonarQube plugin for security audits of Java web applications.
  • google-java-format - Google Style Reformat
  • Hopper - A static analysis tool written in scala for languages that run on JVM
  • HuntBugs - Bytecode static analyzer tool based on Procyon Compiler Tools aimed to supersede FindBugs.
  • JArchitect ©️ - Measure, query and visualize your code and avoid unexpected issues, technical debt and complexity.
  • JBMC - bounded model-checker for Java (bytecode), verifies user-defined assertions, standard assertions, several coverage metric analyses
  • NullAway - Type-based null-pointer checker with low build-time overhead; an Error Prone plugin
  • OWASP Dependency Check - Checks dependencies for known, publicly disclosed, vulnerabilities.
  • qulice - combines a few (pre-configured) static analysis tools (checkstyle, PMD, Findbugs, ...).
  • Soot - A framework for analyzing and transforming Java and Android applications.
  • Spoon - Library to write your own static analyses and architectural rule checkers for Java. Can be integrated in Maven and Gradle.
  • SpotBugs - SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

JavaScript

  • aether - Lint, analyze, normalize, transform, sandbox, run, step through, and visualize user JavaScript, in node or the browser.
  • ClosureLinter - ensures that all of your project's JavaScript code follows the guidelines in the Google JavaScript Style Guide. It can also automatically fix many common errors
  • coffeelint - A style checker that helps keep CoffeeScript code clean and consistent.
  • complexity-report - Software complexity analysis for JavaScript projects
  • DeepScan ©️ - An analyzer for JavaScript which targets runtime errors and quality issues rather than coding conventions.
  • escomplex - Software complexity analysis of JavaScript-family abstract syntax trees.
  • eslint - A fully pluggable tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript
  • Esprima - ECMAScript parsing infrastructure for multipurpose analysis
  • flow - A static type checker for JavaScript.
  • jshint ⚠️ - detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and enforce your team's coding conventions
  • JSLint ⚠️ - The JavaScript Code Quality Tool
  • JSPrime - static security analysis tool
  • NodeJSScan - NodeJsScan is a static security code scanner for Node.js applications.
  • plato - Visualize JavaScript source complexity
  • Prettier - An opinionated code formatter.
  • quality - zero configuration code and module linting
  • retire.js - Scanner detecting the use of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities
  • standard - An npm module that checks for Javascript Styleguide issues
  • tern - A JavaScript code analyzer for deep, cross-editor language support
  • xo - Opinionated but configurable ESLint wrapper with lots of goodies included. Enforces strict and readable code.
  • yardstick - Javascript code metrics

Kotlin

  • detekt - Static code analysis for Kotlin code.
  • ktlint - An anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with built-in formatter

Lua

  • luacheck - A tool for linting and static analysis of Lua code.

MATLAB

  • mlint ©️ - Check MATLAB code files for possible problems.

Perl

  • Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices.

PHP

  • dephpend - Dependency analysis tool
  • deprecation-detector - Finds usages of deprecated (Symfony) code
  • deptrac - Enforce rules for dependencies between software layers.
  • DesignPatternDetector - detection of design patterns in PHP code
  • EasyCodingStandard - combine PHP_CodeSniffer and PHP-CS-Fixer
  • exakat - An automated code reviewing engine for PHP
  • GrumPHP - checks code on every commit
  • Mondrian - a set of static analysis and refactoring tools which use graph theory
  • parallel-lint - This tool checks syntax of PHP files faster than serial check with a fancier output.
  • Parse - A Static Security Scanner
  • pdepend - Calculates software metrics like cyclomatic complexity for PHP code.
  • phan - a modern static analyzer from etsy
  • PHP Assumptions - Checks for weak assumptions
  • PHP Coding Standards Fixer - Fixes your code according to standards like PSR-1, PSR-2, and the Symfony standard.
  • Php Inspections (EA Extended) - A Static Code Analyzer for PHP.
  • PHP Refactoring Browser - Refactoring helper
  • PHP Semantic Versioning Checker - Suggests a next version according to semantic versioning
  • PHP-Parser - A PHP parser written in PHP
  • PHP-Token-Reflection - Library emulating the PHP internal reflection
  • php7cc - PHP 7 Compatibility Checker
  • php7mar - assist developers in porting their code quickly to PHP 7
  • PHP_CodeSniffer - detects violations of a defined set of coding standards
  • phpca - Finds usage of non-built-in extensions
  • phpcf - Finds usage of deprecated PHP features
  • phpcpd - Copy/Paste Detector for PHP code.
  • phpdcd - Dead Code Detector (DCD) for PHP code.
  • PhpDependencyAnalysis - builds a dependency graph for a project
  • phpdoc-to-typehint - Add scalar type hints and return types to existing PHP projects using PHPDoc annotations
  • phpDocumentor - Analyzes PHP source code to generate documentation
  • PHPMD - finds possible bugs in your code
  • PhpMetrics - Calculates and visualizes various code quality metrics
  • phpmnd - Helps to detect magic numbers
  • PHPQA - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics)
  • phpqa - jakzal - Many tools for PHP static analysis in one container
  • phpqa - jmolivas - PHPQA all-in-one Analyzer CLI tool
  • phpsa - Static analysis tool for PHP.
  • PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
  • Progpilot - A static analysis tool for security purposes
  • Psalm - Static analysis tool for finding type errors in PHP applications
  • Qafoo Quality Analyzer - Visualizes metrics and source code
  • RIPS ©️ - A static source code analyser for vulnerabilities in PHP scripts
  • Tuli - A static analysis engine
  • twig-lint - twig-lint is a lint tool for your twig files.
  • WAP - Tool to detect and correct input validation vulnerabilities in PHP (4.0 or higher) web applications and predicts false positives by combining static analysis and data mining.

Python

  • bandit - a tool to find common security issues in Python code
  • bellybutton - a linting engine supporting custom project-specific rules
  • Black - The uncompromising Python code formatter
  • cohesion - a tool for measuring Python class cohesion
  • jedi - autocompletion/static analysis library for Python
  • linty fresh - parse lint errors and report them to Github as comments on a pull request
  • mccabe - check McCabe complexity
  • mypy - a static type checker that aims to combine the benefits of duck typing and static typing, frequently used with MonkeyType
  • py-find-injection - find SQL injection vulnerabilities in Python code
  • pycodestyle - (formerly pep8) check Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8
  • pydocstyle - check compliance with Python docstring conventions
  • pyflakes - check Python source files for errors
  • pylint - looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard and sniffs for some code smells. It additionally includes pyreverse (an UML diagram generator) and symilar (a similarities checker).
  • pyre-check - A fast, scalable type checker for large Python codebases
  • pyright - Static type checker for Python, created to address gaps in existing tools like mypy.
  • pyroma - rate how well a Python project complies with the best practices of the Python packaging ecosystem, and list issues that could be improved
  • PyT - Python Taint - A static analysis tool for detecting security vulnerabilities in Python web applications.
  • pytype - A static type analyzer for Python code.
  • radon - a Python tool that computes various metrics from the source code
  • vulture - find unused classes, functions and variables in Python code
  • wemake-python-styleguide - the strictest and most opinionated python linter ever
  • wily - a command-line tool for archiving, exploring and graphing the complexity of Python source code
  • xenon - monitor code complexity using radon

Python wrappers

  • ciocheck - linter, formatter and test suite helper. As a linter, it is a wrapper around pep8, pydocstyle, flake8, and pylint.
  • flake8 - a wrapper around pyflakes, pycodestyle and mccabe
  • multilint - a wrapper around flake8, isort and modernize
  • prospector - a wrapper around pylint, pep8, mccabe and others

R

  • cyclocomp - Quantifies the cyclomatic complexity of R functions / expressions.
  • goodpractice - Analyses the source code for R packages and provides best-practice recommendations.
  • lintr - Static Code Analysis for R.
  • styler - Formatting of R source code files and pretty-printing of R code.

RPG

  • SourceMeter ©️ - Static Code Analysis for RPG III and RPG IV versions (including free-form)

Ruby

  • brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
  • cane - Code quality threshold checking as part of your build
  • dawnscanner - a static analysis security scanner for ruby written web applications. It supports Sinatra, Padrino and Ruby on Rails frameworks.
  • flay - Flay analyzes code for structural similarities.
  • flog - Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in.
  • laser - Static analysis and style linter for Ruby code.
  • pelusa - Static analysis Lint-type tool to improve your OO Ruby code
  • quality - Runs quality checks on your code using community tools, and makes sure your numbers don't get any worse over time.
  • Querly - Pattern Based Checking Tool for Ruby
  • Railroader - An open source static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications.
  • reek - Code smell detector for Ruby
  • RuboCop - A Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.
  • Rubrowser - Ruby classes interactive dependency graph generator.
  • ruby-lint - Static code analysis for Ruby
  • rubycritic - A Ruby code quality reporter
  • SandiMeter - Static analysis tool for checking Ruby code for Sandi Metz' rules.

Rust

  • cargo-audit - Audit Cargo.lock for crates with security vulnerabilities reported to the RustSec Advisory Database.
  • cargo-inspect - Inspect Rust code without syntactic sugar to see what the compiler does behind the curtains.
  • clippy - A code linter to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code
  • electrolysis - A tool for formally verifying Rust programs by transpiling them into definitions in the Lean theorem prover.
  • herbie - Adds warnings or errors to your crate when using a numerically unstable floating point expression.
  • linter-rust - Linting your Rust-files in Atom, using rustc and cargo
  • Rust Language Server - Supports functionality such as 'goto definition', symbol search, reformatting, and code completion, and enables renaming and refactorings.
  • rustfix - read and apply the suggestions made by rustc (and third-party lints, like those offered by clippy).

Scala

  • linter - Linter is a Scala static analysis compiler plugin which adds compile-time checks for various possible bugs, inefficiencies, and style problems.
  • Scalastyle - Scalastyle examines your Scala code and indicates potential problems with it.
  • scapegoat - Scala compiler plugin for static code analysis
  • WartRemover - a flexible Scala code linting tool.

Shell

  • i-Code CNES for Shell - An open source static code analysis tool for Shell and Fortran (77 and 90).
  • shellcheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool that gives warnings and suggestions for bash/sh shell scripts

Solidity

  • slither - Static analysis framework that runs a suite of vulnerability detectors, prints visual information about contract details, and provides an API to easily write custom analyses
  • solium - Solium is a linter to identify and fix style and security issues in Solidity smart contracts

SQL

  • sqlcheck - Automatically identify anti-patterns in SQL queries
  • sqlint - Simple SQL linter
  • tsqllint - T-SQL-specific linter
  • TSqlRules - TSQL Static Code Analysis Rules for SQL Server

Swift

  • SwiftFormat - A library and command-line formatting tool for reformatting Swift code
  • SwiftLint - A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions
  • Tailor - A static analysis and lint tool for source code written in Apple's Swift programming language.

Tcl

  • Frink - A Tcl formatting and static check program (can prettify the program, minimise, obfuscate or just sanity check it).
  • Nagelfar - A static syntax checker for Tcl
  • tclchecker - A static syntax analysis module (as part of TDK).

TypeScript

  • Codelyzer - A set of tslint rules for static code analysis of Angular 2 TypeScript projects.
  • TSLint - An extensible linter for the TypeScript language.
  • tslint-clean-code - A set of TSLint rules inspired by the Clean Code handbook.
  • tslint-microsoft-contrib - A set of tslint rules for static code analysis of TypeScript projects maintained by Microsoft.

VBScript

  • Test Design Studio ©️ - A full IDE with static code analysis for Micro Focus Unified Functional Testing VBScript-based automated tests.

Multiple languages

  • AppChecker ©️ - Static analysis for C/C++/C#, PHP and Java
  • Application Inspector ©️ - Commercial Static Code Analysis which generates exploits to verify vulnerabilities. Supports: Java (including JSP and JSF), C#, VB.Net, ASP.NET, Php, JavaScript, Objective-C, Swift, C\C++, SQL (PL/SQL. T-SQL. MySQL), HTML5
  • AppScan ©️ - Commercial Static Code Analysis. Supports: Microsoft .NET Framework (C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET), ASP (JavaScript/VBScript), C/C++, COBOL, ColdFusion, JavaScript, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java™ (including support for Android APIs), Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Visual Basic 6
  • APPscreener ©️ - 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
  • Axivion Bauhaus Suite ©️ - 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
  • Checkmarx ©️ - Commercial Static Code Analysis which doesn't require pre-compilation. Supports: Android (Java), Apex and VisualForce, ASP, C#, C/C++, Go, Groovy, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Objective C, Perl, PhoneGap, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, Swift, VB.NET, VB6, VBScript
  • coala - Language independent framework for creating code analysis - supports over 60 languages by default
  • Cobra ©️ - Structural source code analyzer by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Supports C, C++, Ada, and Python.
  • codeburner - Provides a unified interface to sort and act on the issues it finds
  • CodeFactor ©️ - Static Code Analysis for C#, C, C++, CoffeeScript, CSS, Groovy, GO, JAVA, JavaScript, Less, Python, Ruby, Scala, SCSS, TypeScript.
  • CodeIt.Right ©️ - CodeIt.Right™ provides a fast, automated way to ensure that your source code adheres to (your) predefined design and style guidelines as well as best coding practices. Supported languages: C#, VB.NET.
  • CodeScene ©️ - CodeScene prioritizes technical debt, finds social patterns and identifies hidden risks in your code.
  • cqc - Check your code quality for js, jsx, vue, css, less, scss, sass and styl files.
  • Depends - Analyses the comprehensive dependencies of code elements for Java, C/C++, Ruby.
  • DevSkim - Regex-based static analysis tool for Visual Studio, VS Code, and Sublime Text - C/C++, C#, PHP, ASP, Python, Ruby, Java, and others.
  • Fortify ©️ 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.
  • Goodcheck - Regexp based customizable linter
  • graudit - Grep rough audit - source code auditing tool - C/C++, PHP, ASP, C#, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby
  • Hound CI - Comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests. Supports Coffeescript, Go, HAML, JavaScript, Ruby, SCSS and Swift.
  • imhotep - Comment on commits coming into your repository and check for syntactic errors and general lint warnings.
  • Infer - A static analyzer for Java, C and Objective-C
  • Klocwork ©️ - Quality and Security Static analysis for C/C++, Java and C#
  • Kiuwan ©️ - 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
  • oclint - A static source code analysis tool to improve quality and reduce defects for C, C++ and Objective-C
  • pfff - Facebook's tools for code analysis, visualizations, or style-preserving source transformation for many languages
  • PMD - A source code analyzer for Java, Javascript, PLSQL, XML, XSL and others
  • Pronto - Quick automated code review of your changes. Supports more than 40 runners for various languages, including Clang, Elixir, JavaSCript, PHP, Ruby and more
  • pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
  • PT.PM - An engine for searching patterns in the source code, based on Unified AST or UST. At present time C#, Java, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, and JavaScript are supported. Patterns can be described within the code or using a DSL.
  • PVS-Studio ©️ - a (conditionally free for FOSS) static analysis of C/C++ and C# code. For advertising purposes you can propose a large FOSS project for analysis by PVS employees.
  • Reviewdog - A tool for posting review comments from any linter in any code hosting service.
  • Security Code Scan - Security code analyzer for C# and VB.NET. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc.
  • Semmle QL and LGTM ©️ - Find security vulnerabilities, variants, and critical code quality issues using queries over source code. Automatic PR code review; free for public GitHub/Bitbucket repo: LGTM.com.
  • shipshape - Static program analysis platform that allows custom analyzers to plug in through a common interface
  • SonarQube - SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.
  • STOKE - a programming-language agnostic stochastic optimizer for the x86_64 instruction set. It uses random search to explore the extremely high-dimensional space of all possible program transformations
  • Synopsys ©️ - 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)
  • TscanCode - A fast and accurate static analysis solution for C/C++, C#, Lua codes provided by Tencent. Using GPLv3 license.
  • Undebt - Language-independent tool for massive, automatic, programmable refactoring based on simple pattern definitions
  • Veracode ©️ - Find flaws in binaries and bytecode without requiring source. Support all major programming languages: Java, .NET, JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, C, C++ and more.
  • WALA - static analysis capabilities for Java bytecode and related languages and for JavaScript
  • Wotan - Pluggable TypeScript and JavaScript linter
  • XCode ©️ - XCode provides a pretty decent UI for Clang's static code analyzer (C/C++, Obj-C)

Other

Build tools

  • checkmake - Linter / Analyzer for Makefiles
  • codechecker - a defect database and viewer extension for the Clang Static Analyzer

Binaries

  • BinSkim - A binary static analysis tool that provides security and correctness results for Windows portable executables.
  • cwe_checker - cwe_checker finds vulnerable patterns in binary executables.
  • Jakstab - Jakstab is an Abstract Interpretation-based, integrated disassembly and static analysis framework for designing analyses on executables and recovering reliable control flow graphs.
  • Manalyze - A static analyzer, which checks portable executables for malicious content.
  • Twiggy - Analyzes a binary's call graph to profile code size. The goal is to slim down binaries.

Containers

  • anchore - Discover, analyze, and certify container images
  • clair - Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers
  • collector - Run arbitrary scripts inside containers, and gather useful information
  • dagda - Perform static analysis of known vulnerabilities in docker images/containers.
  • Docker Label Inspector - Lint and validate Dockerfile labels
  • Haskell Dockerfile Linter - A smarter Dockerfile linter that helpsyou build best practice Docker images
  • kube-score - Static code analysis of your Kubernetes object definitions.

Config Files

  • dotenv-linter - Linting dotenv files like a charm.
  • gixy - a tool to analyze Nginx configuration. The main goal is to prevent misconfiguration and automate flaw detection.

Configuration Management

  • ansible-lint - Checks playbooks for practices and behaviour that could potentially be improved
  • cfn-lint - AWS Labs CloudFormation linter.
  • cfn_nag - A linter for AWS CloudFormation templates.
  • cookstyle - Cookstyle is a linting tool based on the RuboCop Ruby linting tool for Chef cookbooks
  • foodcritic - A lint tool that checks Chef cookbooks for common problems.
  • Puppet Lint - Check that your Puppet manifests conform to the style guide.
  • terrascan - Collection of security and best practice tests for static code analysis of Terraform templates.
  • tflint - A Terraform linter for detecting errors that can not be detected by terraform plan.

CSS

Gherkin

  • gherkin-lint - A linter for the Gherkin-Syntax written in Javascript.

HTML

  • HTML Inspector - HTML Inspector is a code quality tool to help you and your team write better markup.
  • HTML Tidy - Corrects and cleans up HTML and XML documents by fixing markup errors and upgrading legacy code to modern standards.
  • HTMLHint - A Static Code Analysis Tool for HTML
  • Polymer-analyzer - A static analysis framework for Web Components.

IDE Plugins

  • ale - Asynchronous Lint Engine for Vim and NeoVim with support for many languages
  • Attackflow Extension ©️ - Attackflow plugin for Visual Studio, which enables developers to find critical security bugs at real time in the source code without any prior knowledge.
  • DevSkim - Inline, realtime security analysis. Works with multiple programming languages and IDEs (VS, VS Code, Sublime Text, ...).
  • Puma Scan - Puma Scan provides real time secure code analysis for common vulnerabilities (XSS, SQLi, CSRF, LDAPi, crypto, deserialization, etc.) as development teams write code in Visual Studio.
  • Security Code Scan - Security code analyzer for C# and VB.NET that integrates into Visual Studio 2015 and newer. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc.
  • vint - Fast and Highly Extensible Vim script Language Lint implemented by Python.

LaTeX

  • ChkTeX - A linter for LaTex which catches some typographic errors LaTeX oversees.
  • lacheck - A tool for finding common mistakes in LaTeX documents.

Makefiles

  • portlint - A verifier for FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD port directories.

Markdown

  • markdownlint - Node.js -based style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.
  • mdl - A tool to check Markdown files and flag style issues.

Mobile

  • android-lint-summary - Combines lint errors of multiple projects into one output, check lint results of multiple sub-projects at once.
  • FlowDroid - static taint analysis tool for Android applications
  • paprika - A toolkit to detect some code smells in analyzed Android applications.
  • qark - Tool to look for several security related Android application vulnerabilities

Packages

  • lintian - Static analysis tool for Debian packages
  • rpmlint - Tool for checking common errors in rpm packages

Supporting Tools

  • LibVCS4j - A Java library that allows existing tools to analyse the evolution of software systems by providing a common API for different version control systems and issue trackers.
  • Violations Lib - Java library for parsing report files from static code analysis. Used by a bunch of Jenkins, Maven and Gradle plugins.

Template-Languages

  • ember-template-lint - Linter for Ember or Handlebars templates.
  • haml-lint - Tool for writing clean and consistent HAML
  • slim-lint - Configurable tool for analyzing Slim templates
  • yamllint - Checks YAML files for syntax validity, key repetition and cosmetic problems such as lines length, trailing spaces, and indentation.

Translation

  • dennis - A set of utilities for working with PO files to ease development and improve quality.

Writing

  • After the Deadline ⚠️ - spell, style and grammar checker
  • codespell - check code for common misspellings
  • languagetool - Style and grammar checker for 25+ languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.
  • misspell-fixer - Quick tool for fixing common misspellings, typos in source code
  • Misspelled Words In Context - a spell-checker that groups possible misspellings and shows them in their contexts
  • proselint - a linter for English prose with a focus on writing style instead of grammar.
  • vale - A customizable, syntax-aware linter for prose.
  • write-good - A linter with a focus on eliminating "weasel words".

Web services

  • Codacy ©️ - Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.
  • Code Climate ©️ - The open and extensible static analysis platform, for everyone.
  • Code Inspector ©️ - Code quality and technical debt management platform that supports 10+ languages.
  • CodeFactor ©️ - Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.
  • CodeFlow ©️ - Automated code analysis tool to deal with technical depth. Integrates with Bitbucket and Gitlab. (free for Open Source Projects)
  • Gamma ©️ - An intelligent software analytics platform that identifies issues from multiple lenses: Design issues, code issues, duplication and metrics. Available for Java, C, C++ and C#.
  • kiuwan ©️ - Software Analytics in the Cloud supporting more than 22 programming languages.
  • Landscape ©️ - Static code analysis for Python
  • Layered Insight ©️ - Container native application protection to provide visibility and control of containerized applications.
  • LGTM.com ©️ - 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.
  • Nitpick CI ©️ - Automated PHP code review
  • PullRequest ©️ - Code review as a service with built-in static analysis
  • QuantifiedCode - Automated code review & repair
  • Reshift ©️ - A source code analysis tool for detecting and managing Java security vulnerabilities.
  • Scrutinizer ©️ - A proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub
  • SensioLabs Insight ©️ - Detect security risks, find bugs and provide actionable metrics for PHP projects
  • Sider ©️ - An automated code reviewing tool. Improving developers' productivity.
  • Snyk ©️ - Vulnerability scanner for dependencies of node.js apps (free for Open Source Projects)
  • SonarCloud ©️ - Multilanguage cloud-based static code analysis. History, trends, security hot-spots, pull request analysis and more. Free for open source.
  • Teamscale ©️ - 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.
  • Upsource ©️ - Code review tool with static code analysis and code-aware navigation for Java, PHP, JavaScript and Kotlin.

More collections

  • go-tools - A collection of tools and libraries for working with Go code, including linters and static analysis
  • linters - An introduction to static code analysis
  • php-static-analysis-tools - A reviewed list of useful PHP static analysis tools
  • Tools for C/C++ - A list of static analysis tools for C/C++
  • Tools for Tcl - A wiki-page with several Tcl checker and static syntax analysis tools.
  • Wikipedia - A list of tools for static code analysis.

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