Open Source Linux Static Code Analysis Tools
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Static Code Analysis Tools for Linux
View 18 business solutionsBrowse free open source Static Code Analysis tools and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Static Code Analysis tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Rubberduck
Every programmer needs a rubberduck. COM add-in for the VBA & VB6 IDE
Rubberduck aims to bring the VBIDE into this century. Rubberduck understands Classic-VB code like no other add-in, giving it superior static code analysis capabilities that go far above and beyond what is possible with simple text-based analysis. Avoid common pitfalls (some not-so-common) with dozens (100+) of configurable inspections. Gain full control over module and member attributes, create a virtual folder hierarchy, and document modules and procedures, all with special comment annotations. Navigate a Classic-VB project like never before, quickly locating identifier references, interface implementations, and anything else that has a name. Add a full folder structure for organizing your modules. Write code that runs your code and verifies its output is as expected, given controlled inputs. Organize tests into categories, run them directly in the VBIDE, and view results in a dedicated explorer toolwindow. -
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SonarQube
Continuous inspection
SonarQube empowers all developers to write cleaner and safer code. Thousands of automated Static Code Analysis rules, protecting your app on multiple fronts, and guiding your team. Catch tricky bugs to prevent undefined behavior from impacting end-users. Fix vulnerabilities that compromise your app, and learn AppSec along the way with Security Hotspots. Make sure your codebase is clean and maintainable, to increase developer velocity! We embrace progress - whether it's multi-language applications, teams composed of different backgrounds or a workflow that's a mix of modern and legacy, SonarQube has you covered. SonarQube fits with your existing tools and pro-actively raises a hand when the quality or security of your codebase is at risk. SonarQube can analyse branches of your repo, and notify you directly in your Pull Requests! -
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checkstyle
static code analysis tool for Java
Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program. -
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SpotBugs
A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code
SpotBugs is a program that uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. It is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. SpotBugs is a fork of FindBugs (which is now an abandoned project), carrying on from the point where it left off with the support of its community. Please check the official manual for details. SpotBugs requires JRE (or JDK) 1.8.0 or later to run. However, it can analyze programs compiled for any version of Java, from 1.0 to 1.9. To build the SpotBugs plugin for Eclipse, you'll need to create the file eclipsePlugin/local.properties, containing a property eclipseRoot.dir that points to an Eclipse installation's root directory (see .travis.yml for an example), then run the build. -
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PHPStan Symfony Framework extensions
Symfony extension for PHPStan
Symfony extension for PHPStan. Sometimes, when you are dealing with optional dependencies, the ::has() methods can cause problems. For example, the following construct would complain that the condition is always either on or off, depending on whether you have the dependency for service installed. You can opt in for more advanced analysis of Symfony Console Commands by providing the console application from your own application. This will allow the correct argument and option types to be inferred when accessing $input-getArgument() or $input->getOption(). -
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gosec
Golang security checker
A project devoted to secure programming in the Go language. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can integrate third-party code analysis tools with GitHub code scanning by uploading data as SARIF files. The workflow shows an example of running the gosec as a step in a GitHub action workflow that outputs the results.sarif file. The workflow then uploads the results.sarif file to GitHub using the upload-serif action. Gosec can be configured to only run a subset of rules, to exclude certain file paths, and produce reports in different formats. By default, all rules will be run against the supplied input files. -
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PHP Parser
A PHP parser written in PHP
This is a PHP 5.2 to PHP 8.0 parser written in PHP. Its purpose is to simplify static code analysis and manipulation. A parser is useful for static analysis, manipulation of code and basically any other application dealing with code programmatically. A parser constructs an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of the code and thus allows dealing with it in an abstract and robust way. As the parser is based on the tokens returned by token_get_all (which is only able to lex the PHP version it runs on), additionally a wrapper for emulating tokens from newer versions is provided. This allows to parse PHP 7.4 source code running on PHP 7.0, for example. This emulation is somewhat hacky and not perfect, but it should work well on any sane code. Support for pretty printing, which is the act of converting an AST into PHP code. Please note that "pretty printing" does not imply that the output is especially pretty. -
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PHPStan
Dscover bugs in your code without running it!
PHPStan finds bugs in your code without writing tests. It's open-source and free. PHPStan scans your whole codebase and looks for both obvious & tricky bugs. Even in those rarely executed if statements that certainly aren't covered by tests. You can run it on your machine and in CI to prevent those bugs ever reaching your customers in production. Thanks to rule levels you don't get overwhelmed with thousands of errors on the first run. You can increase PHPStan's capabilities on your code at your own pace. It makes work feel like a game. It doesn't matter how old your code is, PHPStan is here to help you improve it. Thanks to the baseline, you can start writing better code today. PHPStan offers extensions for popular frameworks like Symfony, Laravel or Doctrine. Even code taking advantage of magic methods and properties is understood well. -
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RuboCop
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby
RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer (a.k.a. linter) and code formatter. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide. RuboCop packs a lot of features on top of what you’d normally expect from a linter. Works with every major Ruby implementation. Autocorrection of many of the code offenses it detects. Robust code formatting capabilities. Multiple result for matters for both interactive use and for feeding data into other tools. Ability to have different configurations for different parts of your codebase. Ability to disable certain cops only for specific files or parts of files. Extremely flexible configuration that allows you to adapt RuboCop to pretty much every style and preference. It’s easy to extend RuboCop with custom cops and formatters. Many online services use RuboCop internally (e.g. HoundCI, Sider and CodeClimate). -
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Ruff
An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust
An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust. Ruff aims to be orders of magnitude faster than alternative tools while integrating more functionality behind a single, common interface. Ruff can be used to replace Flake8 (plus dozens of plugins), isort, pydocstyle, yesqa, eradicate, pyupgrade, and autoflake, all while executing tens or hundreds of times faster than any individual tool. Ruff is extremely actively developed and used in major open-source projects. Ruff can be configured through a pyproject.toml, ruff.toml, or .ruff.toml file (see: Configuration, or Settings for a complete list of all configuration options). Ruff supports over 500 lint rules, many of which are inspired by popular tools like Flake8, isort, pyupgrade, and others. Regardless of the rule's origin, Ruff re-implements every rule in Rust as a first-party feature. -
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tfsec
Security scanner for your Terraform code
tfsec is a static analysis security scanner for your Terraform code. Designed to run locally and in your CI pipelines, developer-friendly output and fully documented checks mean detection and remediation can take place as quickly and efficiently as possible. tfsec takes a developer-first approach to scanning your Terraform templates; using static analysis and deep integration with the official HCL parser it ensures that security issues can be detected before your infrastructure changes take effect. Checks for misconfigurations across all major (and some minor) cloud providers. Applies (and embellishes) user-defined Rego policies. Supports multiple output formats: CLI, JSON, SARIF, CSV, CheckStyle, and JUnit. Configurable (via CLI flags and/or config file). Very fast, capable of quickly scanning huge repositories. Plugins for popular IDEs available (JetBrains, VSCode and Vim). -
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Code Quality and Security for Java
SonarSource Static Analyzer for Java Code Quality and Security
Hundreds of unique rules to find Java bugs, code smells & vulnerabilities. Sonar static analysis helps you build and maintain high-quality Java code. Covering popular build systems, standards and versions, Sonar elevates your coding game while keeping vulnerabilities at bay. With each Java version, we create dedicated rules so you learn shiny, new features and avoid pitfalls. Consistently find tricky, hard-to-spot issues in your regular expressions. Allow you to effortlessly repair your Java coding issues with just a click. Dozens of rules to ensure your tests are always as clean as your code! Dedicated rules to detect vulnerabilities including ones stemming from OWASP & CWE Top 25 guidelines. It all comes from a powerful analysis engine that we constantly refine. Sonar employs advanced rules along with smart, exclusive analysis techniques to find the trickiest, most elusive issues. -
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Elixir Code Smells
Catalog of Elixir-specific code smells
Elixir-Code-Smells is a research-driven catalog of code smells specific to the Elixir programming language. Unlike generic code smell lists, this project identifies issues emerging from Elixir’s functional, concurrent, and process-based nature. Initially compiled via grey literature (blogs, talks, forums), the catalog now includes 23 Elixir-specific smells plus 12 traditional smells adapted to Elixir. Each entry documents the name, category, problem, example, refactoring strategy, and step-by-step treatments. The smells are grouped into two categories: design-related (coarse-grained, harder to detect, affecting architecture/processes) and low-level concerns (fine-grained, often readability and maintainability issues). The catalog evolves with community feedback and contributions, aiming to help developers recognize harmful patterns and apply disciplined refactoring to improve maintainability, testability, and performance in Elixir systems. -
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Error Prone
Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors
Error Prone is a static analysis tool for Java that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time. It’s common for even the best programmers to make simple mistakes. And sometimes a refactoring that seems safe can leave behind code that will never do what’s intended. We’re used to getting help from the compiler, but it doesn’t do much beyond static type checking. Using Error Prone to augment the compiler’s type analysis, you can catch more mistakes before they cost you time, or end up as bugs in production. We use Error Prone in Google’s Java build system to eliminate classes of serious bugs from entering our code, and we’ve open-sourced it, so you can too. -
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Zine
Fast, Scalable, Flexible Static Site Generator (SSG)
A Zine site is a collection of content files and layouts. Zine turns your content into HTML, styles it using your layouts, and finally copies the result (alongside other assets like images) into an output directory that you can then publish on static hosting services like GitHub Pages. Zine uses a structured approach to content authoring that helps keep sizeable content collections manageable. Similarly, the build process uses surgical dependency tracking to ensure minimal rebuilds, keeping the authoring experience excellent at all scales. SuperMD is an extension of Markdown that allows you to define embedded assets and semantic constructs that would be impossible to express in Markdown without using inline HTML. SuperHTML is an extension of HTML5 that focuses on expressing correct templating logic. With SuperHTML it's impossible to generate malformed HTML and most mistakes become build-time errors. -
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bearer
Code security scanning tool (SAST) to discover security risks
Welcome to the Bearer documentation. Bearer is a static application security testing (SAST) tool that scans your source code and analyzes your data flows to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities leading to sensitive data exposures (PII, PHI, PD). We provides built-in rules against a common set of security risks and vulnerabilities, known as OWASP Top 10. Leakage of sensitive data through cookies, internal loggers, third-party logging services, and into analytics environments. Usage of weak encryption libraries or misusage of encryption algorithms. Unencrypted incoming and outgoing communication (HTTP, FTP, SMTP) of sensitive information. Non-filtered user input. Hard-coded secrets and tokens. Bearer currently supports JavaScript and Ruby stacks, more will follow. Bearer's scanners and reports are your path to analyzing security risks and vulnerabilities in your application. -
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Code Quality and Security for C#
Code analyzer for C# and VB.NET projects
Sonar offers a single cohesive solution with a consistent set of metrics and hundreds of static analysis rules to detect your coding issues early. Plus fast and high-precision analysis means high value, low noise, and reliable results always. A single solution for dozens of popular languages, development frameworks and IaC platforms. Our powerful language-specific analysis not only detects coding issues but also helps you understand what's wrong and how to fix it. Our publicly available ruleset includes thousands of rules covering various issue categories and language standards. Open the rule in SonarQube / SonarCloud, scroll down and (in case the rule has parameters), you can configure the parameters for each Quality Profile the rule is part of. Standalone NuGet packages can be configured the same way as SonarLint in connected mode. -
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Doctrine extensions for PHPStan
Doctrine extensions for PHPStan
DQL validation for parse errors, unknown entity classes and unknown persistent fields. QueryBuilder validation is also supported. Recognizes magic findBy*, findOneBy* and countBy* methods on EntityRepository. Validates entity fields in repository findBy, findBy, findOneBy, findOneBy, count and countBy method calls. Interprets EntityRepository MyEntity correctly in phpDocs for further type inference of methods called on the repository. Provides correct return for Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager::getRepository(). Provides correct return type for Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager::find, getReference and getPartialReference when Foo::class entity class name is provided as the first argument. Queries are analyzed statically and do not require a running database server. This makes use of the Doctrine DQL parser and entities metadata. -
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JSHint
A tool that helps to detect errors and in your JavaScript code
JSHint is a community-driven tool that detects errors and potential problems in JavaScript code. Since JSHint is so flexible, you can easily adjust it in the environment you expect your code to execute. JSHint is publicly available and will always stay this way. The project aims to help JavaScript developers write complex programs without worrying about typos and language gotchas. Any code base eventually becomes huge at some point, so simple mistakes, that would not show themselves when written, can become show stoppers and add extra hours of debugging. So, static code analysis tools come into play and help developers spot such problems. JSHint scans a program written in JavaScript and reports about commonly made mistakes and potential bugs. The potential problem could be a syntax error, a bug due to an implicit type conversion, a leaking variable, or something else entirely. -
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Pylint
It's not just a linter that annoys you!
Pylint is a static code analyzer for Python 2 or 3. The latest version supports Python 3.7.2 and above. Pylint analyses your code without actually running it. It checks for errors, enforces a coding standard, looks for code smells, and can make suggestions about how the code could be refactored. Projects that you might want to use alongside pylint include flake8 (faster and simpler checks with very few false positives), mypy, pyright or pyre (typing checks), bandit (security-oriented checks), black and isort (auto-formatting), autoflake (automated removal of unused import or variable), pyupgrade (automated upgrade to newer python syntax) and pydocstringformatter (automated pep257). Pylint isn't smarter than you: it may warn you about things that you have conscientiously done or checks for some things that you don't care about. During adoption, especially in a legacy project where pylint was never enforced. -
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generator-ngx-rocket
Extensible Angular 13+ enterprise-grade project generator
Extensible Angular 5+ enterprise-grade project generator based on angular-cli with best practices from the community. Bootstrap, Angular Material or even Ionic are available, just pick one and start to code. Save time and maintenance effort by creating Progressive Web App and mobile app with the same code base. The app template is based on HTML5, TypeScript and Sass. Optimized build and bundling process with Webpack. Development server with backend proxy and live reload. Cross-browser CSS with autoprefixer and browsers list. Internationalization managed by ngx-translate. Asset revisioning for better cache management. Unit tests using Jasmine, Karma, and headless Chrome. End-to-end tests using Protractor. Static code analysis: TSLint, Codelyzer, Stylelint and HTMLHint. Local knowledgebase server using Hads. Progressive Web App (PWA) support. -
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RIPS - PHP Security Analysis
Free Static Code Analysis Tool for PHP Applications
RIPS is a static code analysis tool for the automated detection of security vulnerabilities in PHP applications. It was released 2010 during the Month of PHP Security (www.php-security.org). NOTE: RIPS 0.5 development is abandoned. A complete rewrite with OOP support and higher precision is available at https://www.ripstech.com/next-generation/ -
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AutoReplacerPlus
Automatic correction of software bugs and grammar mistakes
Automatic correction of software bugs announced in compilers (clang, gcc) / Static Code Analysis tools (cppcheck, FindBugs) and grammar/style errors like in LanguageTool. Usage: use tool (e.g. cppcheck) and store results in a text file. Afterwards call: autoreplacerplus mytextfile -
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PasCop
Static code analysis for Freepascal
PasCop is a tool for static program analysis of Object Pascal source codes. It helps to comply with the principles of Clean Code Development and supports the developer in creating readable source code. -
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AWS IoT Device Defender Library
Client library for using AWS IoT Defender service on embedded devices
The Device Defender library enables you to send device metrics to the AWS IoT Device Defender Service. This library also supports custom metrics, a feature that helps you monitor operational health metrics that are unique to your fleet or use case. For example, you can define a new metric to monitor the memory usage or CPU usage on your devices. This library has no dependencies on any additional libraries other than the standard C library, and therefore, can be used with any MQTT client library. This library is distributed under the MIT Open Source License. This library has gone through code quality checks including verification that no function has a GNU Complexity score over 8, and checks against deviations from mandatory rules in the MISRA coding standard. Deviations from the MISRA C:2012 guidelines are documented under MISRA Deviations. This library has also undergone static code analysis using Coverity static analysis.
