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Five Tools to Improve Your Java Code (2019) (developer.okta.com)
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Saved you a click:

  • JaCoCo for test coverage,
  • PMD for static code analysis
  • SpotBugs (successor of FindBugs) for linting and enforce coding style/best practices,
  • japicmp to check semantic versioning
  • codecov and checkstyle.
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Tools that generate errors, so that you have to go stupid shit to keep a machine happy?

I lost the count how many companies made me create dumb tests to achieve some random ass definition of code coverage. Once I was literally trying to save production and had to get back and add a boilerplate test. And somehow this is a standard here in Brazil, everyone loves these "metrics"