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Developers interested in a program that uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code
About SpotBugs
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. SpotBugs checks for more than 400 bug patterns.
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SpotBugs
spotbugs.github.io
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