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I’m working on a new Android project which I inherited. Well, I forked it because I didn’t feel welcomed to contribute to the project and I see a lot of places where improvements are needed.

First, I need to improve the codebase. Previous developers didn’t care about any Java coding guidelines from Oracle, Google, CERT or even Android. Some of the problems I have to solve now are:

  • inconsistent style
  • catch (Exception e){}
  • catch(Throwable e){}
  • ArrayList<Object> list = new ArrayList<String>()
  • complex methods – if {switch {for {if {else {}}}}
  • new Thread().start()

To quickly start clean-up and identify those problems, different static code analysis tools can be used; one of them is SonarQube.

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by ·Comments Off on Static code analysis in QtCreator with CppCheck

Just a simple tutorial to show you how to add static code analysis plugin in QtCreator on Liunx.
Start by downloading plugin dedicated to QtCreator from here.

Unpack .zip and you will get two directories which you have to copy to /usr/lib/qtcreator/plugins/. You can copy only libQtcCppcheck.so, if you don’t need Russian translation.

cp lib/qtcreator/plugins/libQtcCppcheck.so /usr/lib/qtcreator/plugins/

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