2023-static-analysis.pdf

1. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 1 Improving your Code with Static Analysis Tools Jeanne Boyarsky Thursday, July 20th 2023 UberConf speakerdeck.com/boyarsky https://github.com/boyarsky/2023-uberconf- static-analysis
2. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky Pause for a Commercial 2 Java certs: 8/11/17 Book giveaway at end!
3. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 3 Intro
4. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 4 Identify errors in code without running it
5. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 5 Brainstorm: what are some things static analysis can find? •Functionality defects •Anti patterns •Performance issues •Security problems •Coding standard violations
6. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 6 Static Analysis SAST (Static Application Security Testing) Coding standards, functionality, etc Security modeling, etc Security static analysis
7. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 7
8. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 8 Checkstyle
9. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 9 Created 2001 Java versions 10.X - Java 11-17 9.X - Java 8 Focus Coding standards Limits One file at a time Languages Java
10. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 10 Sample Rules
11. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 11 Sample Report
12. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 12 Sample Report
13. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 13 Artifact URL Docs https://checkstyle.sourceforge.io/ GitHub https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/ releases/ Ant Task https://checkstyle.sourceforge.io/ anttask.html Maven Plugin https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven- checkstyle-plugin Gradle Plugin https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/ checkstyle_plugin.html URLs
14. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 14 •Older tool •“Sun” and Google styles built in •One file at a time •Not as powerful as others Caveats
15. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 15 Config
16. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 16 Output
17. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 17 Suppressions Can also use xml based excludes
18. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 18 Custom Rule Demo
19. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 19 SpotBugs
20. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 20 Created FindBugs SpotBugs 2006 2016 Java versions Any? (old docs say 9 but works with 17) Focus Scanning bytecode Languages Java
21. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 21 FindBugs?
22. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 22 Sample Rules
23. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 23 Sample Report
24. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 24 Artifact URL Main page https://spotbugs.github.io/ Docs https://spotbugs.github.io/ Rules https://spotbugs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ bugDescriptions.html Ant task https://spotbugs.readthedocs.io/en/ stable/ant.html Maven Plugin https://spotbugs.github.io/spotbugs- maven-plugin/ Gradle Plugin https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/ com.github.spotbugs URLs
25. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 25 •Older tool •Support slow - deprecated gradle code for three versions •Rules can be finnicky •Report kludgy •Docs varying degrees of dated Caveats
26. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 26 Config
27. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 27 Output
28. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 28 Suppressions
29. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 29 Custom Rule Demo Or bytecode directly if need to Object size = stack.getStackItem(0).getConstant(); Object str = stack.getStackItem(1).getConstant();
30. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 30 Custom Rule Demo Couldn’t get Gradle to recognize it. Docs say to drop in plugin directory/ Eclipse.
31. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 31 PMD
32. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 32 Created 2002 Java versions Up to Java 20 Focus Coding issues Add ons Copy paste detection Languages Many
33. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 33 What does PMD stand for? •Nothing •Retrofitted Programming Mistake Detector
34. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 34 Sample Rules
35. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 35 Sample Report
36. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 36 Artifact URL Main page https://pmd.github.io/ Docs https://docs.pmd-code.org/latest/ Rules https://pmd.github.io/pmd/ pmd_rules_java.html Ant task https://pmd.github.io/pmd/ pmd_userdocs_tools_ant.html Maven Plugin https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven- pmd-plugin/ Gradle Plugin https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/ pmd_plugin.html URLs
37. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 37 Config
38. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 38 Output
39. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 39 Suppressions
40. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 40 Custom Rule Demo
41. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 41 Custom Rule Demo
42. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 42 Sonar
43. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 43 Created 2006 Java versions Up to Java 17 Focus Various Company SonarSource Languages Many
44. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 44 Types •Sonar Lint - IDE •Open source web app/ scanner •Commercial web app/ scanner •SaaS - https://sonarcloud.io
45. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 45 Sample Rules
46. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 46 Sample Report
47. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 47 Artifact URL Main page https://www.sonarsource.com/products/ sonarqube Docs https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/ Rules https://rules.sonarsource.com/java/ Ant task https://docs.sonarqube.org/9.7/analyzing- source-code/scanners/sonarscanner-for- ant/ Maven Plugin https://docs.sonarqube.org/9.7/analyzing- source-code/scanners/sonarscanner-for- maven/ Gradle Plugin https://docs.sonarqube.org/9.7/analyzing- source-code/scanners/sonarscanner-for- gradle/ URLs
48. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 48 Config
49. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 49 Suppressions
50. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky 50 Custom Rule Demo
51. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky + IDE Support 51
52. twitter.com/jeanneboyarsky mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky Book Giveaway 52