Checkstyle Reviews & Product Details

As the name suggests, checkstyles checks the human code to ensure that the code is compliant with standards set by the coding language (mainly Java language). It also helps us configure parameters to ensure that we can incorporate almost all coding standards and add new code standards. Overall, it helps us reduce manual efforts and also allows us ensure best coding practices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing major in terms of limitations in this tool. The only limitation is that it is a static tool and we need to manually add new standards (if any) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check Style helps a developer to write readable and maintainable code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Choosing rules to include in Check Style is quite tedious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Organization standards can be enforced as part of the build process. It is also relatively fast. Having a consistent standard at least makes some reviews faster because of expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Little value overall compared aside from enforcing organization standards. It does not really find bugs at least not as well as SonarQube. It also does not have a "fix" function. The defaults are pretty draconian and conflict with those of SonarQube at times. There's a lot of knobs that need to be tuned in order to benefit and the rules are local to the project rather than centralized unless a lot of care has been put in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

(Design and best practices) along with severity levels of sun’s style Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would have been better if certain classes have distinct categories because many of them overlaps with each other Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Natural integration with code version control and build tools via dependency managers like maven and gradle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

XML configuration could be replaced with json Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using this tool for more than 5 years now. We have implemented this tool mainly to check the documentation and code comments. It works awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

None that i know so far. Suggestions: Annotations support would be helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Keeps devs focused on core functionality.

-Keeps teams aligned in how they code.

-Standards are good.

-Increases the quality of code

-Makes developers better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-When devs are allowed to override checkstyle rules ;) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about Checkstyle is how open and available it is when I need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about checksytle is nothing becuase I love what checksytle brings to the table and how it suits my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Checkstyle is a plugin that can be easily added to IDE instead of having the source code analyzed in a separate server outside. It points out all the improvement areas as per the industry standards and best practices making it a perfect code review tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We need to manually choose to analyze the code via checkstyle and it doesn't automatically analyze as we make code changes and save. However, it is a great combination with PMD and allows us to customize the rules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suggestions, corrections of syntax, extremely handy and helpful with description Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rules can be some what helpful and descriptive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.