SpotBugs is a program to find bugs in Java programs. It looks for instances of "bug patterns" --- code instances that are likely to be errors.
This document describes version of SpotBugs. We are very interested in getting your feedback on SpotBugs. Please visit the SpotBugs web page for the latest information on SpotBugs, contact information, and support resources such as information about the SpotBugs GitHub organization.
To use SpotBugs, you need a runtime environment compatible with Java version 1.8 or later. SpotBugs is platform independent, and is known to run on GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS X platforms.
You should have at least 512 MB of memory to use SpotBugs. To analyze very large projects, more memory may be needed.