SemmleCode: free Eclipse plugin to query java code

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  13 years ago

  by semhq1

  Elnar Hajiyev

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 13 years ago
  SemmleCode is a new free Eclipse plugin to improve software quality. With this tool, it is possible now to find bugs, compute metrics, enforce coding conventions by writing little simple code queries.
  

  For example, to find all packages that are larger in size than a certain limit, you could write the following query:

  
  

  from MetricPackage p, int loc
  
  where p.fromSource() and loc = p.getNumberOfLines() and loc > 1000
  
  select p,loc order by loc desc

  
  

  getNumberOfLines() method is not a fixed function. It is defined in the MetricPackage type, and you can easily redefine it:

  
  

      int getNumberOfLines() {
  
         result = sum(CompilationUnit cu |
  
                      cu.getPackage()=this |
  
                      cu.getNumberOfLines())
  
      }

  
  

  You can visualise the results of this query as bar-charts, pie-charts or using many other visualisation modes. SemmleCode supports eight different views, such as tree-view, table-view, Eclipse's problems view, graph view, etc.

  
  

  The key difference of this tool is the fact that all its predefined checks for bugs and metrics rules are just simple, intuitive object-oriented queries of a few lines. This makes them easily adaptable to your specific project. Defining new code queries becomes also an easy task.

  
  

  It is of course also possible to use SemmleCode just as a general semantic search tool. Writing queries to identify all elements with certain properties can be done just as easily as shown above.

  
  

  Try it out for yourself. You can download SemmleCode at http://semmle.com. There is also a SemmleCode Community page (http://semmle.com/community/), where you can share your queries or request new features. Enjoy!

  
  

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  Elnar
  
  Semmle Limited

  
  
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