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I wonder if there is (or could be) a program that collates the most common bugs for X programming language from SO. So you run it as a sort of preprocessor, and

by fao_ 11y ago

I wonder if there is (or could be) a program that collates the most common bugs for X programming language from SO. So you run it as a sort of preprocessor, and it picks up stuff that the compiler either doesn't or can't.

reagency 11y ago
Google's Tricorder http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43322.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43322.html
jestar_jokin 11y ago
Not related to SO, but FindBugs and PMD for Java are designed to identify potential bugs, based on accumulated knowledge of "gotchas" (e.g. calling "multiply()" on a BigDecimal without assigning it to a new variable - BigDecimal is immutable).