Are there any tools for performing static analysis of Scala code?

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Roman Kagan picture Roman Kagan · Oct 21, 2009 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

Are there any tools for performing static analysis of Scala code, similar to FindBugs and PMD for Java or Splint for C/C++? I know that FindBugs works on the bytecode produced by compiling Java, so I'm curious as to how it would work on Scala.

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Chris Peterson picture Chris Peterson · Nov 3, 2009

FindBugs analyzes JVM byte codes, regardless of the tool that generated them. I've tried using FindBugs to check .class files generated by Scala. Unfortunately, FindBugs produced many warnings, even for trivial Scala programs.

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