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Debugging can be challenging, but with the right tools, you can identify and fix bugs, security vulnerabilities, and coding violations effortlessly even before executing your codebase. This ensures cleaner, well-organized code and minimizes errors from the start.
In this article, I’ll share some of the best tools to help you debug easily.
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Qodo (formerly Codium)
qodo is one of the best tools you can find to run your static code analysis. It uses AI to analyze your code before executing it, identify potential bugs and security risks, and suggest improvements.
Its key features are:
✅ Code Analysis: Analyze your code thoroughly and write a complete analysis report as text.
✅ Code Enhancement: Gives you an enhanced and cleaner code.
✅ Code Improve: Identify bugs and security risks and suggest improvements and best practices to solve them.
✅ Code Explain: Gives you a detailed overview of the code.
✅ Generate Test Suite: Generate test cases for different scenarios where you can improve code performance and behavior.
qodo can be used as an IDE plugin Qodo Gen, a Git plugin Qodo Merge, or a CLI tool Qodo Cover, allowing seamless integration and experience.
It also supports many programming languages, such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, Go, and PHP.
ESlint
ESLint is an open-source project you can integrate and use for static code analysis. It is built to analyze your JavaScript codes and find and fix issues, allowing you to have your code at its best.
It allows you to:
✅ Find issues: Analyze your code and identify potential bugs.
✅ Fix problems automatically: Automatically fix most of the identified issues with your code.
✅ Configuration options: You can customize the tool as needed by creating your own rules and using custom parsers.
You can use ESLint through a supported IDE such as VS Code, Eclipse, and IntelliJ IDEA or integrate it with your CI pipelines. Moreover, you can install it locally using a package manager like npm, yarn, npx, etc.
SonarQube
SonarQube is a widely used code analysis tool that helps you write clean, reliable, and secure code. Below are some of its key features that allow you to conduct a proper static code analysis.
✅ Defect issues: Find bugs and issues that may cause unexpected behaviors or problems.
✅ Vast language coverage: SonarQube supports 30+ programming languages, frameworks, and IaC (Infrastructure as Code) platforms.
✅ SAST (static application security testing) engine: Uncovers deeply concealed security vulnerabilities using the SAST engine.
✅ Quality gates: Fails code pipelines when defined code quality metrics are not met.
✅ Super fast analysis: You can get actionable clean code metrics within minutes.
✅ Extensive reporting: Gives you well-detailed dashboards and reports on numerous code quality metrics.
SonarQube allows you to integrate it with various DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
Codacy
Codacy is a popular code analysis and quality tool that helps you deliver better software. It continuously reviews your code and monitors its quality from the beginning.
It main features:
✅ Healthy code: Identifies bugs in the code and provides suggestions enforcing code quality, performance, and behavior.
✅ Complete visibility: Dedicated dashboards allow you to check the health quality of your repositories.
✅ Risk prioritization: Through security and risk management dashboards, you can prioritize and fix the identified security risks immediately.
✅ Securing your code: Protect your code with SAST, hard-coded secrets detection, configuring IaC platforms, dynamic application security testing, etc.
Codacy supports a broader range of tools, languages, and frameworks, including GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Slack, Jira, Kubernetes, Ruby, JS, Ts, C++, etc.
Codacy is an open-source tool that can be used for free
Coverity
Coverity by Synopsys is one of the code scanning tools widely used for code analysis. It can help you easily identify and fix various issues, improving performance and reducing build times.
Its key features:
✅ Identifying bugs and errors: Analyze your code thoroughly and find possible errors and bugs that may cause unexpected behavior.
✅ Root cause explanation: After finding issues, Coverity will provide a detailed explanation of each issue’s root cause, allowing you to fix them quickly.
✅ Vulnerability detection: Fully scans your code, identifies security risks, and provides mitigation guidelines.
✅ Language coverage: Coverity scans projects built with JavaScript, Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, and Python.
Coverity can be integrated with GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, and Travis CI platforms, and it provides plugins for multiple IDEs, including VS Code.
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Top comments (12)
Thank you Kiran
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Really helpful, thank you <3
Glad you find it useful :)
Thanks for sharing👍
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Thanks mahn keep up with the good work
Happy to hear that :)
Thanks @dev_kiran
You're welcome! 🙏
These are not debugger tools. These are linters and code analyzer. Debugger helps you find bugs in code and allow you put breakpoints and see the call stack. Like xdebug, strace, trace, GDB, chrome devtools etc.
Yes, I thought I could find a good CLI debugger - but these are not them. This is code coverage, testing and static analysis.