Overview of static and dynamic analysis tools for Python

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One of our goals is to analyze own implementation with static and dynamic analysis tools. According to the assignment, we need at least 2 tools for static and 2 tools for dynamic analysis.

Let's do research of available tools and summarize it in this thread.

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Code Analysis

Tools of static analysis, linters and code quality checkers. Also see awesome-static-analysis.

• Code Analysis
  • coala - Language independent and easily extendable code analysis application.
  • code2flow - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
  • prospector - A tool to analyse Python code.
  • pycallgraph - A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.
• Code Linters
  • flake8 - A wrapper around pycodestyle, pyflakes and McCabe.
    • awesome-flake8-extensions
  • pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer.
  • pylama - A code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.
  • wemake-python-styleguide - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.
• Code Formatters
  • black - The uncompromising Python code formatter.
  • yapf - Yet another Python code formatter from Google.
• Static Type Checkers, also see awesome-python-typing
  • mypy - Check variable types during compile time.
  • pyre-check - Performant type checking.
• Static Type Annotations Generators
  • MonkeyType - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types

https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#code-analysis

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Debugging tools https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#debugging-tools

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Code Quality

• Codacy - Automated Code Review to ship better code, faster.
• Codecov - Code coverage dashboard.
• CodeFactor - Automated Code Review for Git.
• Landscape - Hosted continuous Python code metrics.
• PEP 8 Speaks - GitHub integration to review code style.

https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#code-quality

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Test coverage

• [x] https://coveralls.io/
• https://codecov.io/

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