The Educational Aspect of Static Analysis

Very often new programmers who join our projects ask us whether we have auto-formatting instruments to make Java code look exactly the way Qulice expects. (Qulice is the static analyzer we use.) I always reply that having such an automated code polisher would only be harmful and wouldn't help the project and its members improve and grow. Here is why I think so.

[image error]Blind Fury (1989) by Phillip Noyce

Static analysis, the way we do it in combination with read-only master branch, is a fully aut...