PMD Source code analyzer | Automated Apex Code Review

What is PMD?

PMD stands for Programming Mistake Detector is an open source code analyzer tool which is used to generate code quality report.

Here we will discuss about how PMD can be used to generate code quality report for standalone application.

Step 1:

Download PMD from here à Unzip the download file

Step 2:

Now Retrieve the code through package.xml from workbench-

Now unzip the source code after downloaded from workbench.

Step 3:

Run the below pmd command to generate the report

You can define the rule set as per your need or else you can use the built-in rule set. See the below table for build in rule set path

Rule Name	Description	Rule Set Path
Best Practices	Rules which enforce generally accepted best practices.	Category/apex/bestpractices.xml
Code Style	Rules which enforce a specific coding style.	Category/apex/codestyle.xml
Design	Rules that help you discover design issues.	Category/apex/design.xml
Documentation	Rules that are related to code documentation	Category/apex/documentation.xml
Error Prone	Rules to detect constructs that are either broken, extremely confusing or prone to runtime errors.	Category/apex/errorprone.xml
Performance	Rules that flag suboptimal code.	Category/apex/performance.xml
Security	Rules that flag potential security flaws.	category/apex/security.xml