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# Checkstyle Reviews
**Vendor:** sourceforge  
**Category:** [Static Code Analysis Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/static-code-analysis)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 21
## About Checkstyle
Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard.




## Checkstyle Reviews
  ### 1. Easy to use and Perfect for code review

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Hajira L. | Senior Consultant/Delivery Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020

**What do you like best about Checkstyle?**

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.

**What do you dislike about Checkstyle?**

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.

**What problems is Checkstyle solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Class level and method level design problems are easily detected using checkstyle. They have also resulted in overall performance improvement of my application.

  ### 2. Easy to use yet powerful

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Priyank D. | Principal Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2020

**What do you like best about Checkstyle?**

It is highly configurable. We can modify various rules easily and add some custom as well.

**What do you dislike about Checkstyle?**

Nothing as such. However if it can provide compile-time safely, it will be great.

**Recommendations to others considering Checkstyle:**

This is easy to use and highly configurable. Everyone should implement.

**What problems is Checkstyle solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We want to unify our codebase. A lot of new joiners don't know the current style and checkstyle helps bring everyone under same umbrella.

  ### 3. It adds value to the code.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2020

**What do you like best about Checkstyle?**

Every code must pass through certain check -points to meet the industry standard.
Checkstyle helps us achieving that.

**What do you dislike about Checkstyle?**

At times , it does not work properly which makes us to do some work around to pass the code throuoghly.

**What problems is Checkstyle solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Problems -> For complex code , it might not work as expected 

Benefits-> check point for our code.



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## Checkstyle Features
**Agentic AI - Static Code Analysis**
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance

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