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Are there any static code analysis tools for Delphi/Pascal?

I have seen plenty of options for C++ and .NET, but nothing for Delphi/Pascal.

Ideally something that could be integrated into a continuous integration system.

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Pascal Analyzer is nice.

chuacw
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Rauhotz
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If you want something that will give you various software metrics (complexity etc.) for your code then I strongly recommend SourceMonitor from Campswood Software. It works for C and C++ too, and it's free.

Rudy Velthuis
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The Architect version of Delphi has a very powerful Audits and Metrics feature that does a complete analysis of your code. The feature provides a complete analysis of your source code. A very under appreciated feature, I think.

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  • Is it somewhat mimicable in D5 + Jenkins + XUnit cooperation? – HX_unbanned Jan 05 '12 at 10:24
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    The Delphi Audit and Metrics are definitely useful by detecting not only coding rules violation, but also by **detecting architecture smells** . The results on my projects were very very interesting. This is surely the kind of unknown Delphi feature I think ! – TridenT Oct 25 '12 at 09:22
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    I've been using the Audits and metrics in Delphi XE2, and have found them a little broken (only been able to scan about 20% of a large project) - still very useful however and would certainly recommend them. – Alister Jun 20 '13 at 01:18
  • In XE2 they are very broken for me, giving wrong results and sometimes getting the line number wrong. Sad, because this tool would've been such a boon. – DBedrenko Aug 21 '15 at 12:09
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CodeHealer does source code analysis and verification

A version came with BDS2006, But the number of visibility hints is limited to 4 per category. have a look at this link

It works well on a small project but this limitation makes it very hard if not impossible to use on a large project.

Charles Faiga
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There is a new FixInsight tool which does source code analysis and verification.

Roman Yankovsky
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Pascal Analyser, Delphi 2006+ has built in audits and metrics, Source Monitor and Code Healer are the ones that I'm aware of - all are pretty useful.

Alister
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    For everybody reading later ; the full Audits and Metrics feature is found only in Delphi ARCHITECT SKUs only. Although I believe a very limited subset of audits and metrics were introduced in Delphi/RAD 2010 even in the Pro SKU. – Warren P May 12 '11 at 13:53
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On Sourceforge there is a project Delphi Code Analyzer DCA with quite many downloads and last activity in 2009, maybe interesting

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AQTime from AutomatedQA offers a Static Analysis Profiler. I have never used this profiler but am happy with those AQTime profilers that I use regularly. If you go down this path you can integrate AQTime with TestComplete to accomplish this sort of profiling as part of a continuous integration approach.

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