OCLint

What is OCLint?

OCLint is a static code analysis tool for improving quality and reducing defects by inspecting C, C++ and Objective-C code and looking for potential problems like:

• Possible bugs – empty if/else/try/catch/finally statements
• Unused code – unused local variables and parameters
• Complicated code – high cyclomatic complexity, NPath complexity and high NCSS
• Redundant code – redundant if statement and useless parentheses
• Code smells – long method and long parameter list
• Bad practices – inverted logic and parameter reassignment
• …

Static code analysis is a critical technique to detect defects that aren’t visible to compilers. OCLint automates this inspection process with advanced features:

• Relying on the abstract syntax tree of the source code for better accuracy and efficiency; False positives are mostly reduced to avoid useful results sinking in them.
• Dynamically loading rules into system, even in the runtime.
• Flexible and extensible configurations ensure users in customizing the behaviors of the tool.
• Command line invocation facilitates continuous integration and continuous inspection of the code while being developed, so that technical debts can be fixed early on to reduce the maintenance cost.

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